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There is simply no cure for the man-flu. But these salted, chocolate chip cookies are a good starting point.
There was a hint of snow in the air today, and we are well into mid-March. The other half has been feeling less than okay all week. By the time this weekend hit, he was positively rotten, roaming around our little London flat wrapped in a duvet. We were destined for 48 hours of shielding<|fim_middle|> on rotation with naps and Netflix. Then I suggested freshly-baked cookies, which drew a smile from his little face peeking out from his feather-down fortress.
These cookies are foolproof. Really, they are - and I muck up a good portion of recipes I turn my hand to. They are very quick to make, and result in a lovely, slightly chewy cookie. I have reduced the amount of sugar in an old-favourite recipe of mine, as they were a tad sweet for my liking. Do not scrimp on the butter, as the moisture content in a cookie recipe is what helps them to come out nice and soft-centered. Chunky dark chocolate nicely offsets the sweetness of the dough, although this weekend we had a mix of milk and dark and that suited our slippered feet just fine. This recipe yields about 20 odd cookies, so feel free to halve it depending on your self-control.
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
2. In a bowl, sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and the salt. Set aside.
3. Cream the butter and the sugars together for two minutes with an electric mixer. Gradually add the eggs, then the vanilla. Gently fold in the flour and the chocolate pieces.
4. When the dough has come together, break off pieces slightly smaller than a golf ball. Place onto the tray, 4 cm apart. Press down slightly, and sprinkle with sea salt.
5. Bake for about 8-10 minutes, until lightly browned.
6. Allow them to sit on the tray for a couple of minutes, and then transfer to a wire cooling rack with a wide spatula. Leave to cool a little bit, then serve still-warm with some milk. Heaven! | ourselves from the cold licking our windows outside. Hot toddies and soup were | 15 |
MS 989 - Gamma Sigma Alpha, National Greek Academic Honor Society
"MS 989 - Gamma Sigma Alpha, National Greek Academic Honor Society." Finding Aids. BGSU University Libraries, 20 Dec. 2018, lib.bgs<|fim_middle|>issertation: E. Eileen Smoke, "A Comparison of the Graduates and Non-Graduates Of the Class of 1951 at Indiana University," June 1955
Dissertation: John A. Wellington, "Factors Related to the Academic Success of Resident Freshman Men at a Midwestern Liberal Arts College During the Academic Year 1952-1953," August 1955
Dissertation: Charles L. Diener, "A Comparison of Over-Achieving and Under-Achieving Students at the University of Arkansas," 1957
James Conway Nelson, "Comparison of Members and Non-Members of Greek Letter Social Fraternities and Sororities at Virginia State College," August 1959
Dissertation: Sanford Ward Pridy, "Comparison of Certain Qualities of Fall "Rush" Week Participants at the University of Missouri, 1956-1959," 1961
Dissertation: Fred W. Bryson, "An Investigation of the Effects of Deferred Rush and Pledging on a Group of Freshmen at Southern Methodist University," August 1964
Dissertation: Ardyce Mary Grant, "Student Academic Performance as Influenced by On-Campus and Off-Campus Residence," June 1968
Dissertation: James Allen Rhodes, "Selected Factors Related to the Scholarship of Undergraduate Men Living in Fraternity Houses at the Pennsylvania State University," 1968
Dissertation: Paul Robert McQuilkin, "Differential Effects of Group Factors On Fraternity Pledge Class Allocation of Time and Academic Achievement," 1969
Dissertation: Richard Allen Ridge, "Self-Actualization, Achievement and Other Factors as a Function of College Students in Selected Housing Settings," 1969
Dissertation: Ronald Homer Sherron, "A Study of Academic and Nonacademic Predictors and Criteria of Success Among the Morehead Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill," 1969
Dissertation: Charles George Eberly, "Critical Thinking, Attitudes and Values Associated with Fraternity Membership," 1970
Dissertation: Thomas Allan Marshall, "The Effects of Two Uniquely Different Motivational Approaches to a developmental Reading Program On University Academic Success of Selected Fraternity and Sorority Pledges," 1972
Dissertation: Kent Lee Gardner, "Academic Achievement of National Social Fraternity Pledges Compared to Non-Fraternity Students," 1990
Dissertation: Emily Young Lemley, "Effects of Selected Extracurricular Involvement on Persistence in a Church-Related University," August 1990
Dissertation: Clayton Nowlin Smith, "A Study of the Relationship Between Living Environment Press and Retention of Freshmen Pledges In Fraternities at Oregon State University," 1990
Dissertation: Robert Joseph Turek, Jr., "Undergraduate Student Retention In Higher Education, Adrian College-A Case Study," 1992
Dissertation: Mazin Said Marji, "The Interrelationship Between Key Demographic Variables, Involvement in Extracurricular Activities, Development of Interpersonal Values and Academic Achievement," 1993
Dissertation: John J. McGuire, "The Effect of Deferring Fraternity and Sorority Rush Upon Scholastic Achievement, Satisfaction, and Quality And Quantity of Involvement Among Students at a Small, Private Liberal Arts University," 1993
Dissertation: Rebecca June Reed, "The Effects of Structured-Group Membership on the New Freshmen College Experience," 1993
Dissertation: Ike Gibson, "The Relationship Between Graduation and Selected Variables Among Community College Transfer Students At Mississippi State University," 1995
Dissertation: Gary G. Dickstein, "The Impact of Greek Affiliation on Academic Success During the Quarter Pledged at Wright State University," 1998
Plaque, Regional Academic Excellence Award, Dickinson College,2003
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Three Posters, history, 1989-2008 and logos
Graduation Cords, Fall 2011 | u.edu/finding_aids/items/show/1156. Accessed 17 July 2019.
Gamma Sigma Alpha was founded to promote intellectual interaction between Greek students and the academic community. The purpose of the Society is to promote the advancement of education among Greeks; to instill a greater spirit of cooperation among Greek students and organizations; and, to encourage excellence in scholarship. The Gamma Sigma Alpha National Greek Academic Honor Society was formed at the University of Southern California in 1989. The national board was established the following year and the Society quickly grew to over 150 chapters in its first eleven years. During the past few years, it has added regional awards, graduate scholarships and the funding of graduate research to its many programs and services. Membership requirements are based on grade point average and active membership in a Greek fraternity or sorority recognized by the host University.
For more information on Gamma Sigma Alpha, please refer to their web site at: www.gammasigmaalpha.org.
The collection housed at the Center for Archival Collections includes administrative and subject files, printed materials and banners and posters. Also included are dissertations representing the Research Initiative established between Gamma Sigma Alpha and the Higher Education Administration Program at Bowling Green State University to study achievement in fraternity and sororities. The dissertations are available for research use but fall under usual copyright restrictions. The collection was donated in August 2003, with additional documents transferred on an annual basis.
Background on Gamma Sigma Alpha from web site
Constitutions and Bylaws, 1989-1990, 1998, 2009, 2010
Ritual, 1989, 1992, 2009, 2011
History, 1992, 2011
Board rosters, 1993-2012
Board minutes and agendas, December 1991-2012
Year-end reports, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998-2006, 2009-2012
Information packets, 1989-2011
Chapter rosters, 1993-2009
Research Project (with Bowling Green State University), 2001-2006
Literary Magazine-submissions, 1995-1997
Publicity-brochures and press releases, 1990s, n.d.
Photographs, 1994, 2009, n.d. (many are not identified)
Member Services Survey Responses, 2011
Awards, 2009-2012
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FlixChatter Review: SOUL (2020)
On January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021 By ruthIn Flix Reviews12 Comments
It's been a while since I actually reviewed a Pixar movie. I haven't seen COCO and while I did see Onward last Spring, I didn't get a chance to review it. I've always liked movies about<|fim_middle|> Yellow Hawk has a history together and he can't stand the man. But when his superior threatened to take away his pension if he refused the job, with no choice, he obliged.
On their way to Montana, Blocker, his men and Yellow Hawk's family ran into a widow named Rosalie (Rosamund Pike) whose family was brutally murdered by another Indian tribe. With no home and family, Blocker invited Rosalie to come along with him so she can be safe. Just like many other wester films, the plot for this one is pretty thin. The whole film is about how this group of people come together despite their differences and form a bond in order to survive the harsh land at that time.
Performances were pretty good, especially Bale. He plays a man who'll do anything to survive but he's also royal to his men. I don't know if I buy how his character change of heart by the end of the film but Bale's performance was so intense and sincere that I didn't let it bother me too much. I was a bit disappointed that Pike's character didn't really have much to do once she joined the group. Same can be said of Studi's character, in fact he didn't have a lot of dialog in the entire film.
I wasn't that impressed with Scott Cooper's last two films, Out of the Furnace and Black Mass. He's telling a familiar story again here but I thought this one turned out much better than his two previous pictures. The film was well shot but the pacing was a bit slow. I thought some of the dialogs sounded a bit preachy but thankfully he didn't try to hit you over the head with the message he wanted say. I have to mention the excellent music score by Max Richter, it's combination of school western theme and modern-day thriller. Again, the film looked great thanks to cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi.
This a good film with a great performance by Bale, if you're a fan of the western genre then you'll enjoy this one. To me what's keep it from being a great film is the lack of conflicts and not much character development of the supporting cast.
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FlixChatter Series | music and there is something so fun about SOUL that I watched it a day after its release on Disney+.
I love that Disney's animated opening logo montage uses the music played by Joe Gardner's (Jamie Foxx) middle-school students in his music class. It's a fun and clever way to introduce the character in his environments. Now, it's a special day for Joe as he's been hired full time by the school as a music teacher. Instead of being ecstatic however, Joe actually feels down as his dream has always been to be a jazz musician. His tailor-shop-owner mother Libba (Phylicia Rashad) pressures him to accept the job as she wants him to be financially secure. As luck would have it, thanks to his former student, Joe suddenly got a chance to play in one of his favorite jazz quartet. He's got oh-so-close to finally living his lifelong dream that night when poof! he falls into a manhole.
Pixar has always been great at defining its characters and in SOUL it's no different. Joe is all about music… it's in his blood, body and soul… as he says, 'music is all I think about, from the moment I wake up in the morning until I fall asleep at night.' So when I saw his dream slipped away from him just as he came SO close to realizing it, I couldn't help but gasped (even though that scene is right there in the trailer). Most of the movie happens in the afterlife, starting with Joe's soul protesting the fact that he's one of the poor souls heading towards the Great Beyond. Leave it to Pixar to make something quite traumatizing like death and make it cute and mirthful as Joe's soul tries to escape the long lineup. He ends up in the Great Before, as in the pre-mortal existence before the soul enters a body. It's classic Pixar that the visuals in each world is just spectacular to behold… gritty New York City, the dark, ominous-looking steps going to the afterlife (complete with the accountant counting every single soul), then the colorful, fluffy world of the Great Before, each one is so imaginative and wonderfully-constructed.
But the beauty of Pixar Studios isn't just the amazing, awe-inspiring animation techniques, but the genius is in the brilliantly-witty writing, thanks to Pete Docter who co-wrote the script with Mike Jones and Kemp Powers. Somehow they could just get into the psyche of what it is to be human and can create such a family-friendly movie that actually gives you a lot of food for thought for adults. It's when Joe meets 22 (Tina Fey), a cynical soul who has remained in the Great Before universe for a very long time and feels she's not worthy to live on earth that most of the philosophical discussions happen. But of course, all the deep, meaningful existential conversations are delivered via one hilarious moment after another.
The soul-body switcheroo involving a therapy cat creates plenty of slapstick humor, and at times perhaps I fear that it'd get to be too much. Thankfully the writers never loses sight of what the movie is about and all the humor fits into the narrative they're telling. There are so many great moments in this movie but I think the bit when both Joe + 22 are on earth might be my favorites. I love the bit at the barber shop… even the hilarity in that scene consist of deep moments where Joe realizes that perhaps he's become too self-absorbed and not interested in other people's lives. It's these poignant scenes that Pixar is so good at making, filled with life-lessons and wisdom without getting too heavy-handed.
Of course all the characters are delightful. I love all the soul counselors, all named Jerry, voiced by Richard Ayoade, Alice Braga, Wes Studi; and the droll accountant is voiced by Rachel House (whom I love in Taika Waititi movies like Hunt of the Wilderpeople and Thor Ragnarok). As I watch Graham Norton show frequently, it's fun to hear his voice here which I recognize right away. It's inspired casting to have him play the character Moonwind who helps lost souls get over their obsessions. Lovely to hear Angela Bassett's smooth voice as the sassy Dorothea Williams and that metaphor she told Joe in the end is memorable. Hey I'd love to see a spinoff of her character as a Jazz musician/sax player.
Of course, the fact that the protagonist loves Jazz, the music is absolutely fantastic. I love that the fingers playing the piano actually play the keys correctly, courtesy of real-life musician, Jon Batiste, who composed and also performed some of the songs. The movie also included musicians Herbie Hancock, Daveed Diggs and Ahmir-Khalib Thompson aka Questlove. I actually wish Jamie Foxx would actually sing in this movie as he too has a wonderful voice!
Per IMDb, Docter revealed that once the filmmakers settled on the main character being a jazz musician, they chose to make the character African-American. So Joe is the first black main protagonist of a Pixar movie that serves as a fitting tribute to Jazz music as well. What a brilliant title too, a soulful film both thematically and in terms of the music genre. I'm glad Pixar once again comes up with a fresh concept. This one is perhaps most similar to Inside Out which also gives an imaginative insight into humanity in the most delightful way. It's fitting that it's released on Christmas day, as it celebrates the humanity of us all and what a gift life truly is, even in a year like 2020.
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On February 7, 2018 By ruthIn Flix Reviews15 Comments
After he finished with The Dark Knight Trilogy, Christian Bale has been busy starring in different type of roles and in smaller scope film than those big budget Batman films. While I respect his choices, I can't say I enjoy many of those films he starred in. In fact, I hated both American Hustle and Exodus: Gods and Kings. In his new film, he reunited with Scott Cooper who directed him in Out of the Furnace.
Set in 1892, a legendary Army Captain named Joseph Blocker (Bale) is tasked with escorting an old and sick Cheyenne war chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal land in Montana. At first Blocker is reluctant to the task since he and | 1,356 |
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ROXBORO, N.C. (WTVD) --<|fim_middle|> here!" he exclaimed.
The two called themselves "husband and wife" for over 70 years before she passed.
Sylvia Allen is one of Mr. John's daughters.
"My daddy has such a giving heart. I think that's what made him strong. It's not him he wants to look after, it's people," Allen said.
And it showed as four generations of Braxtons and friends gathered at his farm.
Mr. John's birthday wish? To be 101.
As the sun sets on Father's Day 2019, we say Happy Birthday, Mr. John!
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Copyright © 2019 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved. | Father's Day 2019 is more than a celebration of dad for one Roxboro family, it's also a celebration of ten decades of life.
John Braxton wears a white button up shirt. He sits beneath a white tent in his backyard. Tables and chairs are all around.
One by one, the tent fills with "hellos," handshakes and hugs for Mr.John.
Today, he's 100.
"I just can't explain over ten minutes what I've done in 100 years," Mr. John says.
Mr. John is originally from Georgia. But it's North Carolina he's raised his children in and watched his grandchildren grow. The best part though of the Tar Heel State?
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When Comme des Garçons debuted its new menswear collection at Paris Men's Fashion Week, one couldn't help but notice the jumpers and blazers printed with phrases like "Born to Die" that came down the runway. The pieces were striking in and of themselves, but perhaps even more surprising was that the garments were directly inspired by the work of multi-disciplinary artist Joseph Ari Aloi, AKA JK5, who is probably most known as an innovative tattooer.
Tattooers have certainly been able to branch into other media over the last 10 years, and art and fashion commonly intersect. But never has the work of a tattooer featured so heavily on the garments of a brand as prominent as Comme des Garçons. The collection might be able to elevate tattoos as a form and open up new opportunities for artists that are best known for tattoos. More interestingly, it has given confidence to Aloi to chase his true dream to be a high fashion designer.
The work of JK5 is always evolving. He has been drawing since he could hold a crayon, and has continued to develop his style and build his visual vocabulary ever since. From tattoos to visual art to product design, Aloi is always finding new platforms to express his voice. He is often unaware of the forces that he's channeling, which allows his work to reach new and unexpected heights, "It's like Jay Adams on a skateboard and really creative things are happening but that dude is just moving. Or Jimi Hendrix just playing the guitar," he explains, "It's just happening naturally because you are the conduit."
The Comme collection unfolded when Aloi tattooed a client who had a position at the brand, a client who eventually shared Aloi's most recent book, Joseph Ari Aloi AKA JK5: An Archive of Sketches, Tattoos, Drawings, Paintings and Objects, with Adrian Joffe, Rei Kawakubo's husband and Comme's business mind. Joffe eventually got the book in the hands of Kawakubo, who was intrigued. Aloi was then informed that his work would be used in some capacity, but it wasn't until the clothes came down the runway and he saw his work on 37 of the 40 pieces that he knew how much of his art they would use: "It was emotional, it was intense, and it was super exciting," he says.
The garments are saturated in Aloi<|fim_middle|>er's work in its collections already further legitimizes the craft, but if Aloi is able to tackle fashion head on then other talented tattooers might be given opportunities to delve into their respective passions outside the world of tattooing.
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The Tattoo – a documentary | 's aesthetic: "Daphne [Seybold, Head of Comme des Garçons's Press in the U.S.] said that it was unprecedented in all of their collaborations to use that much of any single artist's work," says Aloi.
Aloi, 43, is fiercely ambitious and confident. Though he is quite tall and imposing he has a warm disposition. His presence calms those around him while simultaneously commands their attention. He talks a lot, but in those thousands of words you find someone who approaches art and life with deep sincerity.
Aloi is hardly the first artist primarily known for tattoos to successfully branch into other areas. For some two decades, the vanguard has slowly grown accepting of tattoos as an art form: tattooers like Scott Campbell show work in galleries all over the world, magazines such as this one formulate a thoughtful view of tattooing, and fine artists like Wes Lang draw influence from tattooing. Having a tattoo is as commonplace as wearing jeans to the office. Finally, tattooers are seeing success in other arenas.
"I think there's a faction of tattooers that are among the most talented and visionary fine artists in the world," says Aloi. "I think it always takes the mainstream a long time to catch up to the heat that is being forged in the underground."
Aloi has worked with a variety of companies before the Comme collection, from Nike to Kid Robot. His first book, Subconsciothesaurusnex, that collected his tattoos and visual art from the '90s generated him a lot of attention. Some of these commercial projects he found creatively fertile. Others were not: "Some projects have been nightmares, especially when you're answering to corporations and so many people that aren't creative," he says, "But I've always loved projects and new lines of dialog. It allows me to think of new forms that my work can take on."
As with most artists, Aloi has difficulty sacrificing control over his work. Comme des Garçons's menswear collection was no different, but when a brand like that shows interest in your work, you do it. He simply handed over his book to the company and from there was left in the dark: "I was scared and excited," he says, "I was just hoping it would be at the level I knew it could be.".
Aloi has hoped to break into the fashion world for a long time, and when he found out that none other than Comme was going to be using his work in one way or another, he was thrilled; "I'm really grateful that what I've done with letter forms, scripts, and my distinct style has been translated by the inimitable Rei Kawakubo," he says, "I think it's really good timing."
But Aloi has much higher aspirations in the fashion realm. He is a self-described "fashion nerd" and considers designers like Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs, and of course, Rei Kawakubo, among his biggest influences. Many tattooers have had opportunities to move their art into new mediums: Maxime Buechi, Grime, Henry Lewis, Thomas Hooper, and more have all had success in visual art and graphics and other fields. But none of them has ever taken a leap of faith into a new business the way that Aloi hopes to. Aloi, JK5, is formally announcing his every intention of releasing his own high fashion collection, and possibly his own brand: "I've been inspired by high fashion for a very long time and I've always aspired to something like this Comme project," he says, "I knew there was real potential there for my work to take on a whole new form on living bodies beyond tattooing."
Tattooing and fashion are related in the sense that they both are methods of self-expression through adorning the body. Aloi even sees fashion and costume as part of his work: "I've been designing clothing and costume in all of my own ways forever," he says.
That isn't to say that he doesn't have his work cut out for him. Fashion is a difficult industry to break into, and there are most certainly some fashion design students at Parsons and Central Saint Martin's that would be fuming if they found out a former tattoo artist un-trained in design has even the slightest chance of getting a brand. But Aloi refuses to see barriers between the mediums he expresses himself in: "That's like saying that painters shouldn't be art directors and maintaining antiquated boundaries," he says, "I have no experience making clothes. True. But with the right collaborative team the sky is the limit to bring something unique to the table."
Aloi considers the Comme collaboration the synthesis of all his creative expression at this point. Though he still tattoos at Three Kings in Brooklyn , he wants to dramatically shift his creative energies away from tattooing and into fashion design: "I've always been really restless in my work," he says, "But I don't want to work in a shop every day anymore. I don't want to wake up at 7 AM with my kids and then go in for a shift at 4 PM. It's important to articulate that what I'm working towards is a major shift in where I spend my time and energy."
Aloi is really hoping that he has Comme des Garçons's support to work on a more official JK5 X CDG collection in the fashion of the Raf Simons X Sterling Ruby collection. But his highest and truest aspiration is to get his own JK5 brand under the CDG banner, "I think it's real clear to Adrian [Joffe] what I want to do," he says, "But I need to continue the conversation to find out what I need and what kind of support that there is."
The thing that makes JK5 an artist that could realistically move into the well oiled machine of the fashion industry, his omni-directional focus, could also prove to be the thing that makes it difficult for him to narrow his focus to a specific collection, "It could be so hard to channel his vision in a logistical manner," says Aloi's old friend and filmmaker Sam Cole who is actually in the process of making a documentary about JK5. "But clothing is the modality that he wants to be in. For him it's always about the art but it's just happening that the opportunity to make clothing is becoming part of the journey that he's always been on."
Aloi is well aware of the hurdles that the fashion industry presents: the biases he'd have to overcome, the production costs he'd be responsible for tackling, and the dream team with garment production skills that he would need to hire. But if fully realized, he does have an idea of what the JK5 garments would look like. Aloi even bounced ideas back and forth with friend and fashion designer Siki Im, proposing that his collection would look like, "Modern practical garb for the creative Jedi warrior," he says, "Clothes for men, women and children with a spiritual consciousness."
There have certainly been fashion designers that have left fashion to focus on art full time. But it's certainly more rare for an artist to enter fashion design, and unprecedented for an artist primarily known for tattoos to become a fashion designer. But if Aloi does succeed, the floodgates will be wide open for respected and creative tattooers to take on projects outside their comfort zones. A brand like Comme des Garçons using a tattoo | 1,585 |
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On December 3, 2021 at 8:33 am, Fred said:
Cheap. Good. Fast. Choose two, and only two!
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This is a pretty good review of the Beretta 1301. The "plasticky" feel could be helped by use of Aridus Industries parts and a Magpul stock and forend, like Langdon Tactical does when they modify the gun.
On December 3, 2021 at 12:01 am, George 1 said:
That is a heck of an endorsement from someone who puts a lot rounds through them. No malfunctions in all of those rounds is spectacular performance. The other thing is they have great aftermarket support because the model is so popular.
As for me, I chose reliable and pump action.
On December 3, 2021 at 12:02 am, Paul Chappell said:
Ah, the "Wheel of Engineering" I learned about in engineering school :-)
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As owner of the building space in its location, he wanted to take his own shot at bringing the frozen treat back to town.
"Factory Flavors." That's the name of the game for Shannon Imler and his journey into creating Eldon's latest edition, The Ice Cream Factory. Housed in what was previously the Kraft Cheese Factory and more recently Bailey's Ice Cream, the name is a play on what used to be. Now, Imler is focusing on creating a modern location for fresh ice cream and a number of in-house flavors.
After Bailey's closed, Imler said he could feel a sense of loss in the community. As owner of the building space in its location, he wanted to take his own shot at bringing the frozen treat back to town.
Imler says he has been working alongside the previous manager of Bailey's to come up with a reinvigorated look at what a local ice cream store could be. This came in the form of experimenting with not only flavors, but also how the inside of the store would look. To locals used to the look of what came before, the refreshed look will likely be a shock.
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Imler hopes that the unique flavors will bring people in to try for themselves. He says that the store will be open year round and wants this year's opening to be a showcase for what they have to offer. The Ice Cream Factory opens on April 5 and can be found at 3 South Mill St in Eldon. | er has put a big portion of his time since conceiving the store's concept. In the back of the store, the Ice Cream Factory has a creation station for staff where Imler and his team will use a purchased ice cream base out of Pacific, MO to mix and match flavor into a plethora of combinations. This is something he sees setting the Ice Cream Factory apart from many of the other choices not only in Eldon but around the lake.
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Obit: Rita Schwinn (nee Mrazik), 93, of the Town of Farmington
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Feb. 7, 2018 – Town of Farmington, WI – Rita Schwinn (nee Mrazik) age 93 of the Town of Farmington<|fim_middle|> Gundrum is featured speaker at Nov. 13, Common Sense Citizens meeting | By Bernie Newman | passed away Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at her residence with her husband at her side. She was born July 6, 1924 to Frank and Agnes (nee Fechter) Mrazik in the Town of Trenton where she was raised.
On June 10, 1950 she was united in marriage to Willard Schwinn at Holy Angels Catholic Church in West Bend.
Rita was employed at Wisconsin Electric and later at the West Bend Company for 45 years, retiring as the paymaster in 1987. She was a member of the 25 Year Club, the Golden Vagabond Club and the Christian Women's Society at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Newburg.
Rita loved gardening and seeing things grow. Her kindness and generosity were evident by her willingness to share the fruits of her labor with family, friends, neighbors and nursing homes.
Rita was a hard-working, honest person always busy and on the go. While working at the West Bend Company, she also worked side by side with her husband Bill on the farm. Together they fed the animals, planted crops, baled hay and enjoyed the farm life.
Rita is survived by her husband of 67 years, Willard, her brother Franklin Mrazik and his significant other Dee Kilby. She is further survived by nieces and nephews: Paul (Sarah) Ansay, Bernard (Jeannie) Mrazik, Mary (Robert) Neuman, Gary (Peggy) Furger, Nancy (Jerry) Mehring, Michael (Jimmy Lee Trautwein) Mrazik, Alice (Karl) Johanen, Richard Mrazik, David (Robert Krutke) Mrazik, Jane (Ralph) Bauer, Elizabeth (William) Ermer and Thomas (Linda) Schwinn, Cole and Jimmy Griffin.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Agnes Mrazik, 2 sisters: Dorothy Ansay and Kathryn Furger, 2 brothers: James Mrazik and Gilbert Mrazik, sisters-in-law Dorothy Mrazik and Florence Mrazik, brothers-in-law Clem Ansay and Ed Furger. One nephew James Furger, 2 nieces Margaret (Phil) Schmidt and Lin (Pat) Griffin, as well as her husband's siblings: Elmer Schwinn, Arvin (Marian) Schwinn and Delores (Frank) Loichinger.
We would like to express our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to all neighbors, Annie Schneider and the aides at Brightstar.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Newburg with Rev. Kevin Kowalske presiding. Burial will take place in Holy Trinity Cemetery on Monday at 11:00 a.m. The family will greet visitors on Saturday, at the church only from 11:00 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. In lieu of flowers memorials to Holy Trinity Catholic Church are appreciated.
The Schmidt Funeral Home in West Bend is serving the family. Online guestbook and condolences are available at www.schmidtfuneralhome.com
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Episode 512: Can Mezcal Save A Village? : Planet Money In rural Oaxaca, there are basically no jobs. Two cousins have a dream to change that.
Episode 512: Can Mezcal Save A Village?
< Episode 512: Can Mezcal Save A Village?
January 24, 201410:30 PM ET
MARIANNE MCCUNE, HOST:
Exactly 10 years ago, I was reporting a story for NPR about this one remote region of Mexico in the mountains of Oaxaca that was in real economic trouble. And I was in this really tiny town.
ALEX BLUMBERG, HOST:
All right, so a tiny Mexican town. I'm imagining two main roads, a town square, a church maybe.
MCCUNE: OK, but tinier. There's one main road. There's not even a real square. This is a place where there were no phones in people's houses. If someone got a call, it was announced across the entire village on a loudspeaker. And if it was for you, you'd have to walk to this little office with a few phone booths inside. People there grew most of what they ate. They made their own tortillas. Subsistence farming is the norm because it was practically impossible to get a job here.
BLUMBERG: So it's one of those places, I imagine, that by the time you become a teenager, you're definitely looking for a<|fim_middle|> ago was originally on their series Worlds of Difference. And this music that you're hearing, this was recorded in that village. Every kid growing up there learns to play in a brass band like this one. And then the bands play wildly at the fiestas every year.
BLUMBERG: It's awesome. I'm Alex Blumberg.
MCCUNE: I'm Marianne McCune. Thanks for listening. | way to get out.
MCCUNE: That's what almost everyone does. When I was there in 2004, people told me that half the village was living in California because that's where they could work. But for the people left behind like this girl named Mercedes (ph), living without your dad or your boyfriend was a real bummer.
MERCEDES: (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: "If only there were some solution," she told me, "just something so that people don't have to go so far away." And there was this idea in the village about how to stop everyone from leaving. It involved a very strong and flavorful alcohol.
BLUMBERG: Alcohol?
MCCUNE: Alcohol. People across Oaxaca have made it for centuries. It's called mezcal. It's like the grandparent of tequila. And the idea was let's reinvigorate this tradition. Let's make more mezcal and let's start selling it all over the world with no middleman either. We'll make it here. We will export it ourselves.
BLUMBERG: So the area will come back on the shoulders of this alcoholic drink.
MCCUNE: Exactly. Now, I am a really optimistic person.
BLUMBERG: (Laughter) I'm hearing a but.
MCCUNE: (Laughter) But the idea that somehow an alcohol that few in the rest of the world had heard of could reverse the village's fortune, spread jobs throughout the region, it seemed like a long shot. The story I did for NPR ended on a slightly pessimistic note.
MCCUNE: In the past, Zoochilans have turned to mezcal to help them forget their troubles. This time, they're asking it to do a whole lot more. For NPR News, I'm Marianne McCune in Mexico.
BLUMBERG: I recognize that ending. Time will tell with a pessimistic hedge.
MCCUNE: Oh, lay off.
BLUMBERG: (Laughter) We've all done it.
MCCUNE: (Laughter) So that was 2004. And then last year, I get an email. This guy from those very same mountains found my story from 2004 online and he wrote (reading) we are in the process of launching our mezcal in the U.S. It's called Mezcal Tosba. A few months later, he invited me to come with him on one of his first sales calls in San Francisco. We go to a bar on Haight Street. He pours a glass for the manager and...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: That's great. It's delicious.
MCCUNE: He is interested and so are all the other bars and restaurants we visit that day.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: You know, you talk about certain spirits being perfumy. This is almost like cologney (ph)...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Sure, sure.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: ...You know? It's like - it's got those perfume qualities but in a much earthier and sort of muskier sort of sense.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Yeah.
MCCUNE: Ten years later, artisanal mezcal from the remote mountains of Oaxaca, it is for sale in California. How did that happen?
BLUMBERG: Hello, and welcome to PLANET MONEY. I'm Alex Blumberg.
MCCUNE: And I'm Marianne McCune. Today on the program, the story of how this unlikely scheme to export mezcal from a village with no phones and bring jobs to the region may actually be working despite the odds. What exactly went into those first bottles of mezcal they managed to sell in California? Blood, sweat and tears. And I mean actual blood and sweat and tears. Making global trade work for a down and out rural village, it's not for the faint of heart.
At the center of this tale, there are two cousins, Edgar (ph) and Alessandro Gonzales (ph). They grew up a few towns over from the one I visited a decade ago. Their dads were both teachers in the region. And they were raised with this strong message - you need to take care of this place. You need to build something here, give people a reason to stay. They took it to heart.
BLUMBERG: So these two cousins, they both worked hard, they got admitted to the best regional high school. And when Edgar, the older one, got done with high school, he went to college and studied computers. And college, as it often is, was a pivotal moment in their story because it was at college that Edgar, the older one, saw the film that helped set him on the path he's on today.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "A WALK IN THE CLOUDS")
KEANU REEVES: (As Paul Sutton) And after what I've seen in the war, I mean, it gave me time to think about life, what it means.
BLUMBERG: The movie - I'm sure I don't have to tell you - "A Walk In The Clouds," that romantic drama starring Keanu Reeves as a World War II vet living a double life as the fake husband of the troubled daughter of a California wine baron.
REEVES: (As Paul Sutton) Are you going to Sacramento?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: (As character) I'm going home. My family has a vineyard in Napa.
BLUMBERG: Somehow, Edgar saw himself.
MCCUNE: And Edgar knows it sounds corny but he really was totally taken by life on the vineyard. That's when this idea really crystallized for him.
EDGAR GONZALES: (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: He said, "I want to do that. I want to live like that. I can't grow grapes," he said to himself, "but here, we have agave. I'm going to make mezcal."
BLUMBERG: So let's leave aside for the moment that Edgar had almost no idea about how to actually make mezcal. Even if he did, mezcal is not something you just make. It's sort of like saying, you know what I'm going to do today? Start a winery. The drink is made from the maguey plant, which is a spiky succulent of the agave family. It takes 10 years to grow a mature maguey plant. And that's just the first step.
MCCUNE: You have to harvest them, cook them, mash them up, ferment them, distill the alcohol.
BLUMBERG: And, of course, all of this takes money, more money than Edgar could earn in the village where he grew up, certainly, and maybe more than he could earn in Mexico at all. So to achieve the dream, he did the thing that he had pledged to try and reverse, the thing he'd been brought up to find a way to prevent. He went to the United States.
GONZALES: (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: He was the pride of his family, he told me, the only one to finish college. And when they saw him go to the U.S...
GONZALES: (Groaning).
BLUMBERG: And in California, Edgar followed the typical path of a migrant. He started working at a restaurant in San Jose clearing plates. He was a cook, then a roofer making Subway sandwiches at night. And like most migrants, he would send money back home.
MCCUNE: But this is where he was a little different. The money wasn't for a new house or a nice car. It was for seeds to grow maguey plants and for people to help cultivate them on his father's land.
BLUMBERG: All right, so that's the one cousin, Edgar. The other cousin, Alessandro, was younger. And around this time, he had also made his way north to the United States. He was fresh out of high school when he made the trip. He and his cousin Edgar eventually moved in together in Silicon Valley. And for Alessandro, this was his pivotal moment, his walk in the clouds, if you will.
ALESSANDRO GONZALES: It was a huge change. It was actually what I was looking for because then the world just opened up for me.
MCCUNE: Yes, he became a busboy, too, and then a waiter, and then a waiter in a French restaurant, and then a bartender. He also studied English, he learned a little French, he met people, he traveled. And then came that one night he and Edgar got to talking.
GONZALES: After Work, I think, we're just having a glass of wine. We're - I'm learning about wine. I'm sharing my knowledge what I'm learning with Edgar.
BLUMBERG: Edgar had been making trips to Napa also to learn about wineries and apply what he could to his own scheme. And in that conversation, Edgar told Alessandro his master plan, to make mezcal back in their home region and sell it to the United States. He asked his cousin, do you want in?
GONZALES: Immediately, I didn't think it twice because I've always been - in the back of my head, I want to do something. I want to build something.
MCCUNE: But what did he say? I mean, was he like, I've never made mezcal, you haven't either (laughter), nobody is really surviving doing that in our villages, but let's do this project, it's a really good idea?
GONZALES: He was young. I was really young, too. And living in Silicon Valley where companies are popping out like back and forth and left and right, it's an inspiration to - at least to me, it's a strong message that you could take a chance at least know that - to start something that's kind of against everything. And one of the things that I - living in California, it's that it encourages you to pursue.
And the most important thing is even if you fail, you can always get up and just keep going.
MCCUNE: Edgar, the older one, he says people did tell him he was crazy at the outset, even some of his family members.
MCCUNE: He said, "I covered my ear on this side, I covered my ear on the other side and I followed my dream."
BLUMBERG: But to actually achieve the dream of making a mezcal business, someone needed to learn how to make mezcal and someone else had to learn how to do business. And so it was in the late 2000s after working in the United States for about seven years, Alessandro went back to Mexico to college to study international business.
MCCUNE: And Edgar went back to the village in Oaxaca to build a palenque, that's a little distillation factory, and to learn, finally, how to make mezcal. So, Alex, just to make the timeline clear, by the time I got that email last year from these cousins about their Mezcal, Edgar had already been working at the palenque for six years teaching himself the art of fermentation and distillation. The palenque was his Silicon Valley-style startup.
He experimented and he learned by trial and error. And now he was getting ready to bottle their first batch of mezcal for export. And so I headed down there to check it all out.
MCCUNE: From Edgar's parents' little house where he still lives with his wife and little boy, it takes a half hour to drive the windy dirt road to the palenque. I got a ride with Edgar's friend. Edgar doesn't have a car, so he usually walks at least an hour each way. And when we get there, his whole family is down there to help. A couple cousins run over to show me some baby iguanas they caught.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: Edgar says when he first came back from California, people in the village would criticize him for not having a nice car and a new cement block house like all the other migrants.
MCCUNE: He says people would ask him, where's your car? And he'd say, what car? Where's your house? What house? He says, he told them, well, first I want to make something that will give me food. And after that, it will give me a car. And then it will give me a house. Edgar's palenque is under a big corrugated roof. There are a couple small machines to mash up the maguey before it ferments in big vats. Then there's the distiller, this beautiful mass of cement, bricks, steel pipes and a wood-burning stove where the sugary liquid turns into alcohol.
BLUMBERG: Alcohol.
MCCUNE: (Laughter) And then up the hill, 50 maguey hearts.
BLUMBERG: Maguey hearts? That's, like, the part of the plant that you make the drink from?
MCCUNE: Yeah, it's like the artichoke heart.
BLUMBERG: I see.
MCCUNE: But each one is the size of a salad bowl, and they're roasting over red-hot logs in a big pit in the ground. And they've been going for about five days, and they need to be checked. And when they uncover them, the fire underneath starts burning really hot, too hot. And Edgar and the two guys he's hired to help him, they start madly hosing the maguey hearts with water from a spring and then reaching down and picking them up with their bare hands to throw them out of the pit so that they don't burn.
Everybody's sweating, their hands are burning.
BLUMBERG: Yeah, typical Silicon Valley startup.
GONZALES: Yeah. This work can be dangerous. One time, a rock shot out of this machine Edgar was using to cut down the maguey and it went straight into his eye. He had to walk an hour back to the village cupping his eye. He made it to the hospital in the next town, and then he found out he would never see out of it again.
BLUMBERG: Wow.
MCCUNE: Yeah. Edgar's family wanted him to stop. They told him you should do something else. And when I asked his wife about this whole project, this decade-long mission - and by the way, she was very pregnant with another baby but still working all day long on her feet - she said that she likes being a part of it all.
But when I asked her whether there are days when she feels like enough with this project that so far pays for nothing...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: She said, there are moments in a family that are meant to share. And with Edgar sometimes days at a time down at the palenque, her son is always asking, where's Papa? When is he coming?
BLUMBERG: And Edgar, he says, he sometimes had his doubts as well, his dark moments when they'd been at it, you know, for more than a decade, he and Alessandro were in debt and they'd still seen nothing but a few pesos they were making selling their mezcal locally.
MCCUNE: He says he'd ask himself, am I on the right path or did I make a bad decision? He says sometimes when he's there at the palenque alone in the middle of the night, he'll think, I could be somewhere else just sleeping. What am I doing?
BLUMBERG: The other cousin, Alessandro, he had his struggles, too. After he got his business degree in Mexico, he went back to the States so he could make enough money to pay for the licenses and permits and equipment, bottles, corks, everything that they'd need to get their business up and running.
MCCUNE: And is this just from money you're making as a bartender?
GONZALES: Yes, that's kind of savings. As I work, as I get the money, I've been funding the project. And one of the reasons that it's been kind of slow as well because it's little by little, little by little. And, of course, I've been getting some help from my wife, of course.
BLUMBERG: He married an American woman, a teacher from New York.
MCCUNE: And is she totally onboard, a believer, or is she like, why are we spending all our money on this?
GONZALES: I think, yeah, she has more - she believes half of (laughter) what I say.
BLUMBERG: So Edgar and Alessandro are doing all of this, spending all this money, all this political capital with their spouses all because they hope, of course, it'll pay off for themselves and also because they care about the region that they're from. That's a big part of it. But the more they think about it, there's something even larger, still, they're trying to pioneer here.
They're trying to be a living demonstration of how NAFTA can work for people that in Mexico, it's historically worked against.
MCCUNE: NAFTA, that's the North American Free Trade Agreement, that 20 years ago allowed Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to buy and sell stuff to each other without paying a tax to get things across the border. And in Mexico just like everywhere else, there have been winners and losers. For example, big tomato and jalapeno farmers, winners 'cause that stuff grows great in Mexico and there are some big producers with a foot in the market.
Rural corn farmers, in fact, most any small, rural farmer, losers because how can these little guys compete against high-tech and government subsidized farmers in the U.S.?
BLUMBERG: But Edgar says when he hears people complaining about NAFTA, he says, yeah, I understand it doesn't seem fair. But you have to think of NAFTA as a tool that you can make work for you as well.
MCCUNE: "They say we can't make corn like they can," he told me. "So I say, grow something that they can't. If you want to do something, if you want to bring work to your people, you have to figure out how to make something that, in other places, they can't make."
BLUMBERG: Like mezcal. Not only is Mexico a better place to grow the maguey plant, but you can't even make mezcal anywhere else but in this region because, you know, just like champagne has to be from a specific region in France, mezcal can only be called mezcal if it has official paperwork proving that it was made in this one region of Mexico.
MCCUNE: Mezcal has no direct competition in the U.S. And Alessandro on Edgar say that is the kind of thing they hope to inspire people to think about in the era of free trade, how NAFTA can help them. So the last day of my trip to Edgar's palenque was a really big day. They were going to test run the bottling machine that Alessandro got a grant for a few years back.
It's this graceful stainless steel contraption that allows them to fill six bottles at a time instead of funneling mezcal into each bottle by hand. And it's just been sitting there for a couple years. They built this airtight adobe room to house it and keep the dust and bugs out while they bottle. But they've never used it. They never had to fill so many bottles at once until now.
This week, a supervisor from I guess what you would call the state's mezcal regulation authority will come observe as they fill 2,000 bottles for export.
BLUMBERG: The supervisor has to watch and certify that they are, in fact, bottling this mezcal in the region that makes it count as mezcal. He has to give a stamp of approval to this whole batch.
MCCUNE: And he has to be there for the whole bottling operation. So Edgar, he needs to make sure that this machine is going to work.
Today is the first time you're using it?
GONZALES: Uh-huh.
MCCUNE: It's very exciting.
GONZALES: (Laughter) Yeah, it's very exciting for me. And I've been waiting for this for, like, 10 years. (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: He said, well, he just can't sleep at night because it's like graduating after doing, you know, four years at the university. And this is his life's work. (Speaking Spanish).
MCCUNE: That afternoon, Edgar and his wife spent an hour and a half in that hot room trying to make the machine work the way it's supposed to. And at first, it won't suck the mezcal up through a hose into the machine's spouts. Edgar and his wife try to figure it out together. They're each coming up with ideas. Maybe the little motor isn't hardy enough for this machine.
Maybe one end of the hose needs to be higher or lower. Maybe this piece goes in reverse. And then they finally get it going.
MCCUNE: But now the pressure is too much and the bottles overflow. Eventually, they do fill a dozen bottles and their 4-year-old son joins them as they cork them and stick on the black and silver labels, really pretty labels. When the official bottling begins, they're going to contract with three single mothers from the village to come work on the production line.
BLUMBERG: So Marianne, that was a few months ago. Since then, you recorded that scene at the bar where they were actually going around to bartenders in San Francisco and having them sample it. And the bartenders were loving it. And just to remind you, give you a flavor of what they were saying, here it is again.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: It's definitely sweet in the best way. I mean, it's not cloying, for sure. It's just - it's amazing that that comes through in a distilled product. Like, that's really fun. That's really cool.
BLUMBERG: So the money question. Can I now buy Mezcal Tosba in the United States?
MCCUNE: Yes, you can, if, that is, you fly across the country to California or to Seattle. Yes, you really can buy it.
GONZALES: It's available. It's ready. It has a face. It has legs and arms and it's rolling (laughter).
MCCUNE: So how did it - where do things stand now? You're making millions of dollars a week?
GONZALES: Yeah, I think I can - I don't know what to do with the money (laughter).
BLUMBERG: I'm detecting some sarcasm there (laughter).
MCCUNE: Yeah, Alessandro is still working as a bartender. He's still funding the project with his wife. And in his spare time, he's introducing himself to staff at the hottest bars and restaurants around and taking orders. In two months, he's already sold almost three-quarters of their first shipment, 1,500 bottles.
When all these 2,000 bottles are sold, how much will you have earned?
GONZALES: I would say somewhere around 30, $40,000 in general what's worth.
BLUMBERG: That's net revenue. That's after they've paid for the actual material and the people to make the mezcal and stuff like that.
MCCUNE: Right, though they haven't paid themselves.
BLUMBERG: Right.
MCCUNE: Alessandro is really proud that they're paying salaries to a handful of workers back home and supporting their families. But now he also needs to pay for supplies and taxes and distribution fees for the next shipment.
It's still a huge difference. You've never had anything coming in before.
GONZALES: Exactly. We have a product. We have something right now. And eventually, we'll - it will be profitable.
MCCUNE: When do you think that will be?
GONZALES: In 10 years (laughter). No, I hope soon.
BLUMBERG: So Marianne, we've come, I think, to the end of the podcast here. All we need now is an ending. You ended your last report from 2004 with what we call time will tell with a negative hedge. What about if we use an alternate ending this time, time will tell with optimistic tinge? Think you can do that?
MCCUNE: All right, let me give it a try.
BLUMBERG: All right.
MCCUNE: People who follow mezcal and the growth of the market here, they say that Mezcal Tosba really could make it. Suddenly, you see mezcal cocktails all over the place. They're pretty much in every cosmopolitan bar in California and New York. And one thing Alessandro and Edgar have going for them is their story. There are very few mezcal producers who are selling their own product.
And as a result, putting what they earn back into the place that they come from. And Alessandro and Edgar's aim is for Mezcal Tosba to become the mezcal of the mountains. To do that, they're going to have to make much more. And to do that, they plan to partner with other mezcal makers in the region. And their first partner is going to be those guys that I met back in 2004, the ones who were trying to keep the migrants from leaving.
So this dream of creating a whole mezcal industry, a reason not to cross the border in search of work, it is alive.
BLUMBERG: As always, we would love to hear your thoughts, questions, comments, what'd you think of this story, what do you think in general? Please email us at planetmoney@npr.org.
MCCUNE: You can also find us on Twitter and on Facebook. I want to give a shout out to Homelands Productions. My story from 10 years | 5,544 |
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65 kids' movies to watch during the holidays
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Stuck indoors during the holidays and finding that the kids are already driving you up the wall? Then you need something to entertain them! And what better way to provide entertainment (and distraction) than with a film or five?
Below is a lengthy list of children's films perfect for all occasions – especially the holiday season. These movies are highly entertaining (there's no filler material here), and will work well for the younger members of the household, as well as those who are still young at heart.
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
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First up, Rise of the Guardians, oft-overlooked yet superb animated adventure movie about a collection of mythical characters (Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Jack Frost etc) who team-up to fight a great evil. Directed by Peter Ramsey, the movie features an all-star cast including Hugh Jackman, Chris Pine, and Alec Baldwin.
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Next up is Stuart Little, a delightful<|fim_middle|>bread Man along the way.
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Filled with plenty of slapstick comedy, Home Alone 3 tells the tale of young boy thwarting the plans of a gang of crooks. The movie is overshadowed by the first two Home Alone movies, but there's still some fun to be had here for young audiences who adored the previous entries in the series.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
Nickelodeon's sea-dwelling sponge becomes the star of his own movie in this animated adventure. Stephen Hillenburg directs, while the cast includes Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Alec Baldwin, and David Hasselhoff.
Richie Rich (1994)
Based on the comic book character of the same name, Richie Rich tells the story of an extremely wealthy boy who gets caught up in a diabolical plot which could see him swindled out of his inheritance. Macaulay Culkin takes on the title role, while support comes in the shape of Jonathan Hyde, John Larroquette, and Mike McShane.
Based on the novel, The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith, Babe tells the story of a big-hearted pig who becomes a sheepdog. A hit when it was released, this film has lost none of its charm over the years and is always ripe for a revisit.
Trolls (2016)
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Trolls is an all-singing, all-dancing animated comedy for the whole family. The movie tells the story of the diminutive Trolls, and their dealings with the gruesome Bergens, and offers a real shot of heart-warming fun, guaranteed to put a smile on everyone's face.
The classic tale of Rapunzel gets a reworking in Disney's Tangled – a fantastic animated film from the Mouse House. Featuring a toe-tapping collection of songs and an ensemble of loveable characters, Tangled is great movie for all the family.
Space Jam (1996)
Bugs Bunny and the rest of the iconic Looney Tunes characters head to the basketball court for Space Jam – a live-action movie with a part animated cast. Michael Jordan provides support, while Danny DeVito voices the villain of the piece.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Bugs and Co. return for another live-action/animated mash-up movie. This time around, the Looney Tunes team-up with Brendan Fraser and Jenna Elfman, while Steve Martin is on bad guy duties.
The Little Mermaid (1989)
In this delightful musical, a mermaid sets out on an adventure to win the heart of a prince. Along the way she belts out some amazing tunes, takes on a sea witch, and proves that love is worth fighting for.
Mary Poppins (1964)
In this delightful Disney movie, two British children meet their new nanny, Mary Poppins – an eccentric woman with a song in her heart and a spring in her step. Julie Andrews takes the title role, alongside Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Emily Blunt takes on the role of Mary Poppins for this belated, but imaginative sequel. Packed with songs and exciting new characters, the film is a worthy follow-up.
Dr. Dolittle (1998)
Eddie Murphy plays the title role in this comedy about a doctor who can communicate with animals. Raven-Symoné, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, and Peter Boyle round out the cast.
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Part live-action, part animation, Osmosis Jones is an action comedy about a cop, who also happens to be a white blood cell, on a case inside a human body. The cop has just 48 hours to crack his case or a virus will infect the body.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
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In this rip-roaring animated movie, Aardman Animation deliver another comical tale, this time about a group of pirates and their attempt to win a Pirate of the Year competition. Featuring an all-star cast, including David Tennant and Brian Blessed, this is a movie not to be missed.
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Based on the popular comic strip character, Dennis the Menace is a family comedy about a mischievous boy and the trouble he gets into. Mason Gamble takes on the title role, while Walter Matthau plays longsuffering neighbour, Mr. Wilson.
Monsters Inc. (2001)
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Two monsters, tasked with collecting screams, find themselves at odds with their employer when they befriend a young human girl. What follows is a charming story about friendship, bolstered by superb animation, and fantastic characterisation.
The Goonies (1985)
Richard Donner's action comedy about a group of friends who embark on an adventure is one of the best-loved children's films of the 1980s. The movie stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and Corey Feldman and is just as good as you remember it to be.
Disney outdoes itself with an animated tale about a young girl, a beast, and a magical curse. Arguably one of the best animated movies of all time, this film never gets old and deserves a re-watch.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Adapted from the Roald Dahl novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this movie is an imaginative musical about a boy who wins the trip of a lifetime – an epic tour around Willy Wonka's bizarre chocolate factory. Gene Wilder stars, Mel Stuart directs.
The Tigger Movie (2000)
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Winnie the Pooh's hyperactive friend, Tigger takes top-billing in this adorable and heartfelt movie about family and friendship. The Tigger Movie is a wonderful story, packed with songs, a little bit of drama, and some loveable characters.
Spy Kids (2001)
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Two children find themselves thrust into a wild world of adventure when they discover their parents are spies, in this family film from writer/director, Robert Rodriguez. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino and Teri Hatcher are just three of the many well-known names involved in this picture, which is perfect for youngsters.
Baby's Day Out (1994)
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Written by John Hughes and directed by Patrick Read Johnson, Baby's Day Out is a slapstick comedy about a baby's madcap adventure. Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, and Lara Flynn Boyle star.
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
If you've ever wondered what your pets get up to when you're at work, then The Secret Life of Pets answers that question through an animated comedy for all ages. Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, and Albert Brooks provide voices.
The Lego Movie (2014)
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Sticking with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for an animated offering written based around the popular toy line. The Lego Movie features the vocal talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell and Elizabeth Banks and is awesome. In fact, everything is awesome about this picture.
The Princess Diaries (2001)
And finally, Anne Hathaway plays the role of Mia Thermopolis – a high school teen who one day discovers she is the heir to the throne of Genovia. Comedy and fun follow in equal measure, while support is provided by Julie Andrews and Héctor Elizondo.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post about kids' movies on It's A Stampede!. I hope this list of films points you in the right direction if you're looking for holiday amusement for the kids.
To save you some time from scrolling back through this post to make some notes, here is the list in full.
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How many Critters movies are there? | live-action movie about a talkative mouse who goes to live with an American family. Stuart Little is a real treat of a movie, perfect for the whole family, and will certainly entertain the younger members of the household.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a live-action movie, based on the popular Dora cartoon series and is filled with action, adventure, and plenty of gags that adults will appreciate and kids will adore. If you think Dora the Explorer is just for the little 'uns, think again.
Fly Away Home (1996)
In this inspiring family drama, Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin play a father and daughter who utilise a light aircraft to teach a group of birds to fly. Based on a true story, Fly Away Home is directed by Carroll Ballard and is a real gem of a movie.
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John Candy takes the lead in a hilarious and uplifting comedy from director Jon Turtletaub. The movie, which is based on a true story, tells the tale of the Jamaican bobsleigh team and their entry into the 1988 Winter Olympics.
The Lorax (2012)
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Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, and Betty White provide voiceover duties for The Lorax – an animated tale based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The movie tells a cautionary tale about deforestation, and features a cast of colourful characters.
Big Fat Liar (2002)
Big Fat Liar is a live-action slapstick comedy about a mean-spirited Hollywood producer who steals a school assignment from a 14-year-old boy, so he can turn it into his next big movie. Paul Giamatti, Frankie Muniz, and Amanda Bynes star, Shawn Levy directs.
Enchanted (2007)
Amy Adams stars in this live-action Disney movie (with animated sequences), about a cartoon character who finds herself transported into the real-world. Here she has to contend with the harsh reality of life (i.e. it's not all singing-and-dancing), while trying to find her 'happy ever after'.
The Addams Family (2019)
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Morticia, Gomez, and the rest of the creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky Addams Family take centre stage in this animated picture from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Finn Wolfhard, Chloë Grace Moretz and Bette Midler all provide voices.
Tarzan (1999)
The story of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes has been told and re-told countless times, but all of the adaptations pale in comparison to this one. Disney weaves some animated magic to bring the classic character to life, while Phil Collins provides the soundtrack.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
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In this wonderful environmentally-focused animated movie, a tree logger is shrunk down in size to see what life is like for wildlife. After experiencing the majesty of the world around him, he teams up with fairies and animals to fight back against the destruction of the rainforest.
Glenn Close steals every scene she is in playing the role of Cruella de Vil, in Disney's live-action 101 Dalmatians. If you have only ever watched the animated movie, then now is the time to check out this gem from the 1990s.
Sky High (2005)
Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are amongst the cast of this fun family film, packed with heart and high adventure. Sky High tells the story of a teenager attending a school for super heroes, and the action and adventure that follows.
Magic in the Water (1995)
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Mark Harmon and Joshua Jackson star in this family movie about a supposed 'monster' that appears in a lake in British Columbia. Rick Stevenson directs.
Dinosaur (2000)
An oft-forgotten animated feature film from Walt Disney Pictures, which tells the story of a herd of dinosaurs. This film is a true delight and perfect viewing for any dino-mad youngsters (and their parents).
Paddington (2014)
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Paddington bear takes centre-stage in this adorable family movie about a bear, his new-found family, and his love for marmalade sandwiches. Delightful from start to finish, this is a simply wonderful movie for all ages.
Paddington returns for yet another fun adventure, which is just as good (if not better) than the first movie. The film offers up a good mix of comedy and heart, as well as a standout turn from Hugh Grant as the big villain.
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
DreamWorks Pictures tells the story of Moses in The Prince of Egypt, an animated film from directors Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells. Hans Zimmer provides the movie's score, while the voice cast includes Val Kilmer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick Stewart and Sandra Bullock.
Arguably one of the best adaptations of J.M. Barrie's classic children's story, Peter Pan, this live-action fantasy film stars Jeremy Sumpter, Olivia Williams, and Jason Isaacs. The film is a delight from start to finish and perfect for the whole family.
The Muppets (2011)
Jim Henson's popular puppet creations, The Muppets, remind audiences why they are so beloved in this all-singing comedy from director, James Bobin. All the iconic characters appear, alongside a cast that includes Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Rashida Jones, and Chris Cooper.
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
If you were to make a list of all the Disney animated movies you could think of, chances are Meet the Robinsons wouldn't appear on that list – and that's because it is a largely forgotten family movie from the mid-'00s. But those who do remember it will know that Meet the Robinsons is a fun romp about a young boy in search of his family – and it is certainly worth checking out.
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
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In this superhero origin tale, Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles take on the mysterious Mojo Jojo as he wages war on Townsville. Expect all the fun of the '90s cartoon series, with the action and adventure level cranked up to eleven.
Harriet the Spy (1996)
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Harriet the Spy is a charming movie about a young girl who longs to become a spy. Produced by Nickelodeon and featuring Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, Michelle Trachtenberg in the lead role, this is a film for all the young dreamers in the world.
Freaky Friday (2003)
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan play a mother and daughter in this body-swap comedy from Disney. Freaky Friday has been made and remade multiple times, but this version is certainly one of the best.
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Speeding from games consoles onto the big screen, Sonic the Hedgehog is a fun and colourful live-action adventure film about Sega's most iconic character. Jim Carrey and James Marsden take the lead roles, while Ben Schwartz provides the voice of Sonic.
Jumanji (1995)
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Robin Williams stars in this action-adventure film about a board game that comes to life. Filled with great gags and some superb set pieces, this is a must-watch movie for every family.
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Based on the Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand, Nanny McPhee is wickedly fun film about an unusual nanny who helps a young family. Similar in tone to the Mary Poppins movies, Nanny McPhee stars Emma Thompson in the title role, in a story which is perfect for the whole family.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Emma Thompson returns to the role of Nanny McPhee for this enjoyable sequel, which is equally is good as the first. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes, and Maggie Smith also star.
Aladdin (1992)
A young boy discovers a magic lamp, a genie, and a potential route to happiness in this action-adventure movie from Disney. Often told, but never bettered, Disney's Aladdin is superb.
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Nickelodeon's wise-talking babies take to the big screen for the first time in animated comedy, The Rugrats Movie. In this story, Tommy Pickles gets a new brother, meaning some new responsibilities.
Rugrats in Paris (2000)
In this second Rugrats movie, the gang head to France to take part in yet another adventure. This time around, Chuckie's dad is getting married, but things might not go according to plan.
Night at the Museum (2006)
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Ben Stiller plays the role of a night watchman in this live-action romp about a museum where all of the artefacts come to life. Jam-packed with gags and featuring a great cast, this is a family movie not to be missed.
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Jack Black voices Po Ping, a giant panda chosen to be a warrior in this animated feature. The movie includes plenty of jokes, along with a strong dose of action, and is suitable for the whole family.
Beautifully animated, Treasure Planet is a futuristic reworking of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel, Treasure Island. The movie is one of Disney's finest, and features a cast that includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Stop-motion stars, Wallace and Gromit take to the big screen in a hilarious parody of classic monster movies. Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a fantastic movie from Aardman Animation, with a cast that includes Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, and Helena Bonham Carter.
The Flintstones (1994)
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The modern Stone-Age family star in this live-action comedy about comings and goings in the town of Bedrock. John Goodman plays Fred Flintstone, while Rick Moranis takes on the role of Fred's best friend, Barney Rubble.
In this live-action mystery movie, Scooby-Doo and the rest of Mystery Inc. investigate strange occurrences on an island. Raja Gosnell directs, while the cast includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Linda Cardellini.
Chicken Run (2000)
Another Aardman Animations movie, this time focusing on a group of chickens looking for a way to fly the coup. Taking inspiration from The Great Escape, this hilarious movie stars Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha as two chickens keen to break away from the farm and head to freedom.
Matilda (1996)
Based on the book by Roald Dahl, Matilda tells the story of a young girl with unique abilities. Directed by Danny DeVito, Mara Wilson takes the title role, while Pam Ferris plays the ferocious Agatha Trunchbull in an unforgettable children's movie.
In this animated comedy, fairy tales get a modern-day reworking as Shrek the ogre goes on a journey of self-discovery, encountering the likes of Pinocchio and the Ginger | 2,496 |
Our team of qualified physiotherapists has extensive experience in sports physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and works closely with the doctors at our SportClinic or your referring physician. Our goal is to provide you with full individualised treatment from experts.
Physiotherapy is a collective term that encompasses any form of application, active or passive.
The active part, movement therapy, is the most important and the core<|fim_middle|> with or without a variety of assisting equipment.
The passive part includes massage, electrotherapy (ultrasound, electrical stimulation, etc.), hydrotherapy (water treatment), and thermotherapy (cold and heat).
Physiotherapy is a useful alternative, or addition, to drug or surgical therapy, depending on indication.
The costs of medically prescribed physiotherapy are covered by the national healthcare system and accident insurance, and we also welcome self-payers.
The range of treatments available will vary depending on location. | competence of physiotherapy; this encourages active, independent movements in a prevention, treatment and rehabilitation strategy for the best possible physical reintegration into daily life or sports | 32 |
To help achieve USAID's strategic objectives to reduce childhood mortality and morbidity, the Child Health Research Project (CHR) conducts applied research in: diarrheal and respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, neonatal health, and malnutrition.
CHR identifies and evaluates new technologies for improving treatment and prevention of these illnesses, including methods of managing child health programs. We seek to strengthen the problem-solving capacity of developing country institutions. And we present research findings to guide improvements in national health policies and promote adoption of interventions, approaches, and technologies into professional health practice.
CHR concentrates its research efforts in six areas relating to child health and mortality:
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI)
Diarrheal Diseases
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
Our Collaborating Partners
Five collaborating partners implement the project, each with complementary roles:
World Health Organization Department of Child and Adolescent Health (WHO/CAH) and Department of Vaccines & Biologics (WHO/V&B) is responsible for interventions concerning health, growth, and development for the age group of 0-19 years. It main objectives are: 1) To reduce illness and death among children and adolescents and, 2) To improve the health and development of children and adolescents. CAH stimulates worldwide action to promote healthy behaviours and prevent and manage health problems of children and adolescents. It does so by raising awareness, promoting research and producing information to develop standards and guidelines. In addition CAH facilitates the local adaptation and implementation of standards and guidelines.
Boston University: Applied Research on Child Health (ARCH) Project is committed to the support of applied scientific research that will inform and improve health policies and programs to reduce child morbidity and mortality around the world. The ARCH Project, through its research grant awards, training programs, and technical assistance will strengthen the national capacities of both social and biomedical scientists in low income countries to foster a sustainable system to further the child survival revolution.
ICDDR,B: Center for Health and Population Research is an international, non-profit, health and population research and training institute which was established in 1978 to address diarrhoeal diseases and related problems. ICDDR,B, or the Centre for Health and Population Research, as it is commonly known, is governed by a 17-member international Board of Trustees and is supported financially by over 35 governments and agencies. The Centre promotes study, research and dissemination of knowledge in the management of diarrhoeal diseases, nutrition, and fertility. The Centre has also been mandated to provide training to scientists and researchers in the areas of its competence.
INCLEN (International Clinical Epidemiology Network) is a worldwide network of health professionals dedicated to improving equity, efficiency, and quality in health care through training and the production and application of the best evidence on interventions. This achieved through a network of physicians, statisticians and social scientists throughout the world who work together to build and sustain institutional capacity for excellence and relevance in research medical education.
Johns Hopkins - Family Health and Child Survival (FHACS) identifies new technologies and methods<|fim_middle|>entions Against Antimicrobial Resistance.
PowerPoint slide show on INCLEN-IBIS's Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in India.
PowerPoint slide show on CHR's Research Results and Policy Formulation on Nutrition and Micronutrients.
CHR Synopsis on the reformulation of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) solution.
Perinatal and Neonatal Health Interventions Research (Journal of Perinatology, October/November 2002)
| Home | About CHR | Resources | Focus Areas | Research Activities | Site Map | | for improving child survival and family health. Focus is on effective integrated implementation of services to have the greatest impact in developing countries. FHACS improves the effectiveness of child survival technologies in developing countries by implementing operations and policy research. Research is conducted in collaboration with developing country institutions and focuses on control of childhood infectious diseases and nutritional problems, and improving methodologies for measuring child mortality/morbidity and delivering interventions.
CHR's new Special Report on Determinants of Antimicrobial Use in the Developing World
Effect of Zinc Supplementation Started During Diarrhea on Morbidity and Mortality in Bangladeshi Children (British Medical Journal, November 2002)
AIDS Is Your Business (Harvard Business Review, February 2003)
Global Forum for Health report on Interv | 158 |
Q: selecting date where date can be null I have an object that looks like this:
public class MyObject
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I'm writing a dynamic query that receive this object as a parameter and where I may or may not need the<|fim_middle|>ense to choose the .Date property.
Any idea why?
Thanks.
A: You need to write TheObject.SpecificDate.Value.Date.
However, be careful because if the date is null this will throw. You might want to check that TheObject.SpecificDate != null first.
A: You need to check the SpecificDate.HasValue property
So your code would be something like:
if (condition){
TheQuery = from....
where TheObject.SpecificDate.HasValue && x.AppointDate.Date == TheObject.SpecificDate.Value.Date
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The procedure is simple and usually painless / causes minimal or no discomfort.
eXroid provides a fast and effective electrotherapy treatment for internal piles. Recently introduced in the UK, the latest reported figures show that electrotherapy has a track record of over 155,000 treatments worldwide and over 2,500 in the UK. A gentle current is applied to the base of the haemorrhoid, causing it to shrink as the treatment is ongoing. There is no need for any needles or sharp instruments. Some of our patients reported feeling instant relief from the moment they stood up. After electrotherapy, the pile can continue to shrink for a week or more. There is no need for sedation or anaesthetic, and the majority of eXroid's patients found there was minimal or no recovery time. Based on the patients who've shared their experience following our treatment, most reported a return to normal activities immediately and 90% reported a return to normal activities on the same day.
Think you have haemorrhoids? We can help.
From your first enquiry, we aim to get your initial consultation booked with one of our eXroid doctors within two weeks. Unless there are health circumstances that mean it is inappropriate to carry out the eXroid procedure, most patients have the treatment on the same day as the initial consultation.
The eXroid treatment takes thirty minutes or less and up to 3 haemorrhoids can be treated in a session. There's no need for any anaesthetic, and you can usually resume your normal activities right after treatment.
There is no bowel prep or enema required beforehand which makes the procedure very easy to work into your schedule.
Haemorrhoids shrink during treatment and can continue to shrink for a week or longer following treatment, and your symptoms will normally diminish. In many cases, you will feel relief immediately following the procedure.
eXroid is one of the gentlest treatments available for piles. When compared in clinical trials, pain and discomfort have been consistently shown to be low for electrotherapy treatments, especially when compared to surgery.
eXroid electrotherapy is NOT a heat treatment. A gentle current is applied to the base of the haemorrhoid, causing it to shrink as the treatment progresses. If the current is uncomfortable, the eXroid specialist can reduce it to an acceptable level. There is no need for any needles or sharp instruments. Many of our patients who've shared their experience said they felt instant relief from the moment they stood up.
Electrotherapy is an effective treatment for piles. Half of our patients were cleared of their haemorrhoid after one treatment session, and over 80% after two. Larger piles may require more than two treatments. The number of treatments you need largely depends on how many piles you have and how big they are.
eXroid specialists utilise a single-use probe to gently apply a low direct current (up to 16mA) to the haemorrhoid. The probe is placed in direct contact with the base of the haemorrhoid, targeting the blood vessels which feed the haemorrhoid. No penetration of any kind is required. This causes a chemical reaction which effectively cauterizes the feeding blood vessel to the haemorrhoid which causes it to shrink. This is not a heat treatment.
Don't suffer in silence. Get your life back. One of the advantages of the eXroid electrotherapy treatment is that you can undergo the procedure with minimal disruption to your normal routine.
Most people find it embarrassing to talk about piles. Many will not even mention it to their own partner. The eXroid service is specifically set up<|fim_middle|> you need about the commonest cause for rectal bleeding – piles. There is no obligation to have your piles treated with eXroid after this examination and the eXroid specialist will notify your GP if further tests to investigate any bleeding are advisable.
All our equipment and single-use treatment kits carry the CE mark.
"The treatment worked brilliantly. I went shopping the same day."
"Within days I was playing a round of golf"
Not sure you have Haemorrhoids? A discreet call and we can help.
Haemorrhoids can be difficult to diagnose; even GPs can miss the signs.
Our staff are very knowledgeable and can arrange for you to see a consultant almost immediately should it be necessary. | to protect your privacy.
We will also provide you with access to your medical records on request.
With eXroid you're in safe hands. Although no treatment for haemorrhoids is 100% safe or 100% effective for all patients, electrotherapy for the treatment of piles has been positively reviewed by NICE.
All consultations include an examination by an electrotherapy treatment specialist, who is a UK GMC-registered doctor. If you are concerned about bleeding and the risk of cancer, an eXroid appointment can be the first step in providing the reassurance | 118 |
Heili, Oberdiek help West Platte girls to rare win of home track invitational
West Platte's girls won the team title at their home meet<|fim_middle|>.12.
North Platte's other three relays all finished second.
Callie Pataluna, a senior, collected a pair of third-place medals in the long jump (16-0½) and triple jump (32-4). She came in behind East Buchanan's Josie Fortney and Mid-Buchanan's Bailey Gilbert in both events.
North Platte's boys were second in the team standings with 100 points.
Gentry Scrivener continued a strong season in the throws by coming in second in the shot put (45-3) and third in the discus. Corbin Green, a sophomore, added a runner-up showing in the 200 (23.85) and ran on the second-place 4x400 relay with Caleb Crumley, Van French and William Morse. The Panthers came in less than a second behind Plattsburg.
West Platte's Jan Farkas finished just behind Green in the 200. His third place finish helped the Bluejays finish fourth in the team standings with 86 points.
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Not only did the Bluejays top the team standings, they scored 157 points to run away from second-place Plattsburg (99) and third-place North Platte (97). There were 10 varsity teams total in the West Platte Invitational on Tuesday, April 12 in Weston, Mo.
West Platte won seven events — six individual and one relay — in addition to bunching together top-three finishes in multiple events.
Sydney Oberdiek neared her personal record to win the discus at 111 feet, 10 inches and also topped the shot put field at 35-8. A third-place finisher in both events last season at the Class 2 Missouri State Track and Field Championships, she came in 2-4 ahead of West Platte senior Jessica Lintner, who placed third and continued to show off her marked improvement in the event.
Rachel Heili also won a pair of events and ran on West Platte's winning 4x800-meter relay.
Lauren Moose, Gretchen Hiatt, Sikoya Richard and Heili finished in 10:53.95 to easily best North Platte's second-place team of McKenna Fulton, Maddie Lee, Erin Manville and Lauren Payne (11:09.00). Heili also placed first in the 1,600 at 5:58.10 and the 800 in 2:36.38.
West Platte freshman Lea Moose came in second in the 1,600, while Richard was third in the 800 for the Bluejays. Ciara Davies (400, 1:03.82) and Emily Norman (100 hurdles, 17.04) rounded out West Platte's event winners.
Norman also placed second in the 300 hurdles.
North Platte ended up third in the team standings in a bunched finish behind West Platte. Second place and fifth place were separated by just 13 points.
Gracie Roach, a sophomore, won the high jump at 4-10 for the Panthers' lone individual win. She also ran a leg along with McKenna Fulton, Lee and Manville in the 4x400 relay that finished first in 4:23 | 520 |
Yale, Harvard And Spielberg: 20 Valuable Takeaways From The 2016 Graduation Speeches
Melissa Chan
Graduation, or Commencement Season has hit the United States and this also means a brand new year of inspiring speeches from both graduates and featured speakers. Regardless of which milestone you are at in life, there is something everyone can take away from the speeches.
Here are the top 20 pieces of advice from four distinguished featured speakers.
One of the first directors at the top of everyone's minds, there would be no classics like Jurassic Park (1993), Jaws (1975) or E.T. (1982) without him. With a career spanning over 40 years and <|fim_middle|> to find a way to break out of your echo chambers.
4- It is in your interest to engage the people you disagree with, rather than shutting them out or shutting them up. Not only because it gives you a chance to challenge their views, and maybe even change them. But also because sometimes they may just be right.
5- Getting close – and staying close – requires patience and impatience at once. (…) So if you are setting out to make a slice of the world better, you must go in knowing that real change often requires a long struggle. That doesn't mean being patient in the face of injustice. Because while history may not be in a hurry, you can – and you must – speed it up. Indeed, the struggle to advance basic human rights has almost always been driven by people who refused to accept that any one of us should have to wait until tomorrow for the dignity that every one of us deserves today.
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Tags: commencementDr. William FoegegraduationSamantha PowerSheryl SandbergSpeechSteven Spielberguniversity | 126 awards under his belt, it's hard to believe that he was turned down from admittance to film school because of his C grade average.
After getting his 'dream job' at Universal Studios, he dropped out of college (where he was majoring in English), which he lists as a regret. "(At 18) I knew what I exactly wanted to do. But I didn't know who I was." He eventually returned to complete his university education and graduated at age 55, in hopes of encouraging his children to get a degree as well.
Speaking to the graduates of Harvard University, he urges them to create a future "filled with justice and peace".
1- Your conscience shouts, 'here's what you should do,' while your intuition whispers, 'here's what you could do.' Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.
2- My gut, which was my intuition, told me that more people needed to meet these characters and experience these truths. And while making that film, I realized that a movie could also be a mission. I hope all of you find that sense of mission. Don't turn away from what's painful. Examine it. Challenge it.
3- In your defining moments, do not let your morals be swayed by convenience or expediency. Sticking to your character requires a lot of courage. And to be courageous, you're going to need a lot of support.
4- To me, and, I think, to all of you, the only answer to more hate is more humanity. We gotta repair — we have to replace fear with curiosity. 'Us' and 'them' — we'll find the 'we' by connecting with each other. And by believing that we're members of the same tribe. And by feeling empathy for every soul.
5- Please stay connected. Please never lose eye contact. This may not be a lesson you want to hear from a person who creates media, but we are spending more time looking down at our devices than we are looking in each other's eyes. So, forgive me, but let's start right now. Everyone here, please find someone's eyes to look into. (…) Just let your eyes meet. That's it. That emotion you're feeling is our shared humanity mixed in with a little social discomfort.
As the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sandberg was the first woman to serve on the company's board. Ranked as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune Magazine, and one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes, she is an activist promoting female leadership at the workplace. As quoted from her book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, "A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes." She also delivered a TED speech with advice to women aiming for a place in a male-dominated upper echelons of the corporate ladder.
In her speech to the graduating class of University of California at Berkeley, she stresses the importance of building resilience in light of her own personal tragedy.
1- The easy days ahead of you will be easy. It is the hard days—the times that challenge you to your very core—that will determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.
2- Studies show that getting past personalisation can actually make you stronger. Teachers who knew they could do better after students failed adjusted their methods and saw future classes go on to excel. College swimmers who underperformed but believed they were capable of swimming faster did. Not taking failures personally allows us to recover—and even to thrive.
3- Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience. People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier. It turns out that counting your blessings can actually increase your blessings.
4- When the challenges come, I hope you remember that anchored deep within you is the ability to learn and grow. You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are—and you just might become the very best version of yourself.
5- We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another. Be there for your family and friends. And I mean in person. Not just in a message with a heart emoji. Lift each other up, help each other kick the shit out of option B—and celebrate each and every moment of joy.
Dr. William Foege
80 year old Dr. William Foege is a renowned epidemiologist, and is credited for his successful campaign in the eradication of the deadly smallpox epidemic in the 1970s. Using his medical knowledge as a background to champion many issues, such as child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine, and public health leadership, his interest is in particular helping those in the developing world. Through his extensive lectures and academic publications over the years, he has also broadened public awareness of these problems.
During his speech entitled "Lessons I am Still Desperately Trying To Learn" at Emory University, he expresses his wish to pass on these lessons to the graduates for them to improve on, albeit having "fallen short in all of these categories".
1- Every day we edit our obituaries. Sophocles said, "It's not 'til evening that you may know how good the day has been." And it's not until you get to be my age that you know how good a life has been. But consciously, daily edit your obituary so you realize that sooner. Edit with care and gusto.
2- Avoid a life plan. You cannot imagine what will be invented in the future. You cannot imagine the opportunities that will be presented. You enter a world of infinite possibilities, confusing ideas, continuous changes. But a life plan will limit your future.
3- Be good ancestors. Remember that the children of the future have given you their proxy and they are asking desperately for you to make good decisions, to hope you will take climate change seriously. (…) Because each of us can do so little, it's important that we do our part.
4- The world is expanding in promise, in complexity, in the ability to enjoy it. For all of the problems in the world, I can tell you there has never been a better time to be alive and enjoy that. (…) An example: You have been exposed to as much knowledge in the last year at Emory as Aristotle was in his entire lifetime. Many of you will experience as many cultures in a year as Marco Polo encountered in a lifetime. And think what Shakespeare might have done with a word processor. He didn't run out of ideas, he had a quill and a bottle of ink. You will pack centuries into 80 calendar years.
5- We like to feel we are civilized. How do you measure that? The usual versions look at science, technology, wealth, education, happiness. Every measure fails, except one. But there is one measure of civilization and it comes down to how people treat each other. Kindness is the basic ingredient (…) Plato said, "Be kind to people, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
As the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet, Power has worked alongside him since 2005, when the latter was still a Senator. Since 2009, she has focused on promoting women's and LGBT rights; religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities and the promotion of human rights and democracy, just to name a few. Her first book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002), a study on US foreign policy response on the issue of genocide, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2003.
Power was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in 2004, and was listed as the 63rd most powerful woman by Forbes in 2014.
During her address at Yale College, she urges the students to 'get close' to issues around them, so as to break away from their echo chambers and make a positive change in the world.
1- But everyone has voices in their heads that tell them that everyone else is more capable. I even have a name for the place where those voices live – I call it my Bat Cave. Bats – flying around. Call it what you want, everybody's got one. A healthy dose of self-doubt is a good thing – it is the sister of humility, which is a great thing. The trick is not letting the voices that live in your Bat Cave hold you back from pursuing your path.
2- Getting close means moving beyond approaching an issue through the screen on your laptop or phone, or the filter of someone else's interpretation, and instead finding a way to get to know the individuals whose lives are impacted.
3- From the Facebook and Twitter feeds we monitor, to the algorithms that determine the results of our Web searches based on our previous browsing history and location, our major sources of information are increasingly engineered to reflect back to us the world as we already see it. They give us the comfort of our opinions without the discomfort of thought. So you have | 1,963 |
Thursday April 16 the Prof van der Want MSc thesis award will be handed out to Jim Baggen for his MSc thesis project performed in the Laboratory of Virology of Wageningen University.
The award is given every two years for the best Wageningen MSc thesis or internship report on a virological topic. Only students that continue their scientific career in virology are eligible for this price.
During the ceremony, Jim Baggen will give a lecture, in which he explains his MSc thesis research. He will also talk about his current research at Utrecht University. The title of his presentation is: 'Functions of Chikung<|fim_middle|> virus nsP3 and receptor usage of Human Enterovirus D68'.
The ceremony will start at 3.30 PM in room M10 of the Radix building at Wageningen Campus. Feel free to come and listen if you are interested.
Prof. dr. Jan van der Want (1921-2007) was the second chair holder of the Laboratory of Virology (1961-1986). In 2007 the Van der Want family has installed a fund to reward excellent master students of Wageningen University for virological literature reviews, thesis or internship reports. | unya | 1 |
Falcon Junior School youngsters took part in a cycling training session. Pic: Norfolk County Council.
BMX st<|fim_middle|> safety assessment, with any minor repairs needed being carried out for free.
And people will be able to get free riding safety tips from the Bikeability team.
In the run up to the event schools are getting involved with a number of cycle activities.
Falcon Junior School in Sprowston was one of the first with Level 2 Cyclist Training session last week, where pupils were introduced to the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to ride amongst traffic and encouraged to choose cycling as a healthy and sustainable form of transport.
People are encouraged to arrive at the event, which runs from 10am until 3pm on Sunday on two wheels.
The recreation ground is crossed by Norwich's 'pink pedalway' which runs from Heartsease, through the city centre, to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. | unts, a bicycle obstacle course, a treasure trail and tips on riding safely will all be on offer when Norwich hosts a one-day cycling bonanza.
The free 'Pushing Ahead' event will take place on the Heartsease recreation ground, between Salhouse Road and Woodside Road, and will focus on all things cycle related.
Visitors will be able to get involved with family friendly activities such as a bike ride treasure trail, an 'It's a Knockout' style team competition and a bicycle obstacle course.
There will be a chance to see the 3sixty BMX stunt team perform, and people can treat their own bike to a | 131 |
on the moments that matter?
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Emotional triggers, such as stress, tend to be one of the more prevalent causes of migraines.
In some circumstances, both prescribed and over the counter medication may be triggering the migraine.
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Triptans and other migraine treatments are available in a number of formulations, and some of these take effect quicker than others.4 If you find that your current treatment does not act quickly enough to control your migraine symptoms, or if you find that your symptoms are harder to manage with tablets, you may want to speak to your doctor about alternatives.
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I had never had a migraine in my life until 8 years ago—I got a headache that just wouldn't shift. There seemed no rhyme or reason as to why this started—but I haven't had a single day since where, to a greater or lesser degree, I haven't had a headache, or chronic migraine as I now have the official diagnosis. It's hard not to feel sad. There's sadness when I stop coping for a minute and just consider my chronic migraine.
I feel sad for the days, weeks, months of my life that I've lost just being on a sofa in excruciating pain; unable to ease it no matter what drug I took, and I've taken the lot!
Sad that every time I try a new treatment, whether it's occipital nerve blocks, muscle paralysing injections, or even alternative and holistic therapies, they don't work, and my desperate hopes are dashed again.
But most of all I'm sad about the person my chronic migraine has made me. I'm still me, of course, but a half-light version of myself. When I am blessed with the rare day of a low-level headache, I start to feel like the old me, like my real self, and my joy starts to bubble to the top. Then, when the pain inevitably returns again, I go back to coping, not living once more. My temper is shorter, my humour less, all the room in my brain for creativity and inspiration is taken up by me fighting the drills I can feel boring into my temples.
I still believe that one day the right treatment will come along to lift this from me, or maybe it'll just go away as mysteriously as it started. I just hope I don't have to wait another eight years.
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It's time to give migraine a face.
There's an emoji for feeling dizzy, experiencing nausea and even for a head exploding. Yet, there's none that captures the many faces of a migraine attack. When it strikes, the last thing you want to do is explain the impact it has, whether it's missing another night out, that crucial meeting, or a rare day out with the family. The world, and in particular those who suffer from debilitating migraine attacks, needs a migraine emoji. That's why we've started a petition to make this a reality. Join us, sign the petition and let's get closer to making it a reality.
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Over the last few months we've been developing a new dory design. Our goal was to come up with a smaller 2-3 person boat for running upper basin river stretches at all kinds of water levels. Using the DNA of several different boats, an initial design was lofted up.
We then ran this by some other boat builders. Next, the nonsense started. When Brad Dimock and the Fretwater crew sent us back their modifications, they had christened a name, Chubby Bunny, onto the design. This made for a good laugh.
After pondering the design some more, getting more opinions, and making some slight changes, we decided to go for it. Sam, Peter, and Bego all helped with getting it laid up at the shop. It's a small rotund thing: 13' 9" in length, 52" at the bottom, and 84" at the oarlocks.
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We still have lots of work to do, but we're already thinking we'll be making a few more of this design soon. | can't name a boat design after a mouthful of food! That's just not right. It should be called just the CHUB." And so the Chub was | 34 |
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Digital services company APD has expanded its marketing automation capabilities with the licensing of the IBM Marketing<|fim_middle|> brand in a store, to researching comparable items and pricing online, or sharing feedback on their experience with the brand on a social channel.
Already in place at APD is the SmartMailPRO platform, which is powering hundreds of SME organisations across the region.
Paula Harrison, CEO of APD Engage (pictured above), said the new license with IBM is offering APD clients a pathway to upgrade their marketing automation and data collection. | Cloud across the Asia Pacific region.
Marketers will now be able to analyse a wide range of automated, multi-channel interactions and generate insights to better engage with customers and deliver personalised shopping experiences.
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NASA Just Launched Four Spacecraft to Study the Magnetosphere • Mirror Daily
On Thursday, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket was fired up from Cape Canaveral. It carried four immense octagonal slice-shaped capsules, which were set into orbit at a five minutes distance from each other. They are now gravitating around the Earth with increased speed, preparing to be grouped into a pyramid formation. The goal of this mission is to study magnetic reconnection, a natural process that poses a threat to communication systems on our planet.
According to a NASA report about the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon provoked by the connection, disconnection and reconfiguration of magnetic fields, which leads to large explosions (whose energy release is the equivalent of billions of megatons of TNT and whose propelling force can speed particles through space nearly light-fast).
The study of magnetic reconnection could lead to a better comprehension of its effects on communications (internet, mobile phones, electrical grids, and GPS systems). Furthermore, it could deepen scholars' understanding of the functioning of magnetic fields in space, at far distances in the outer solar system or beyond.
The first phase of the mission involves orbiting the earth following an elliptical trajectory. Each of the four spacecraft will reach a distance of 43,000 miles from the Earth while in orbit. In the second phase, this distance will increase to 95,000 miles. The space capsules will cover both the bright side of our planet, where the Sun's magnetic field meets the Earth's, and the dark side of the planet, where magnetic reconnection is more frequent, producing the aurora borealis and aurora australis.
Each spacecraft has arm-like appendages that extend up to 200 feet on each of its eight sides. These carry measurement instruments. The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission program manager Craig Tooley described the limbs of the<|fim_middle|> pounds when completely fuelled.
Scholars are very enthusiastic about the discoveries this mission might trigger. Jim Burch from the Southwest Research Institute, the principal investigator for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, explained that "everything to do with space weather starts with reconnection", which is why it is crucial to understand why and how it takes place. The current mission will study precisely that area around the Earth where magnetic reconnection phenomena take place. Burch is confident that this will help solve the mystery.
image source: NASA | spacecraft as having, each, "a footprint about the size of a football field". Due to the mobile instruments, they will record magnetic activity over 100 times faster than any mission has done so far. The gigantic octagonal devices weight around 3,000 | 56 |
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Fiction #68
by Terence S. Hawkins
He was naked in a chair next to the phone which was sitting on the nightstand next to the bed in the Motel 6 in Lawton, Oklahoma.
He had been sitting there for a while with the vodka making the icecubes crack in the plastic cup in his hand. Sometimes he poured more Seven-Up into the glass; sometimes he poured in more vodka from the bottle that sat next to the Seven-Up can next to the phone.
He wasn't naked when he sat down. He had sat down a long time before, just after dinner. The sun was still pretty high in the sky when he went to the Ponderosa and was just touching the horizon when he left and stopped at the Seven Eleven and got the bottle. So he still had all his clothes on when he sat down with the air conditioning running high and beside him the first can of Seven-Up and the first bucket of ice from the machine down the hall when he turned on the TV and watched CNN for a while and then switched to ESPN.
But after he'd gone down the hall a few times for more ice and more seven up he decided what the hell and got all the ice and all the Seven- Up he'd need to kill the rest of the bottle and he came back to the room and took off all his clothes and sat down in the chair next to the bed. He picked up the newspaper he found in the back of the rental car he got at the airport and he flipped to the back where he'd seen all those pictures that he'd first seen when he dropped the two suiter in the trunk.
They were not the kind of pictures you expected to see in any newspaper that came out of Oklahoma but when you saw that the newspaper had been published in Houston it made a little more sense. It wasn't a real newspaper, anyway, it was one of those papers that comes out every week in big cities and these days even small cities that is full of ads for bars that have music and reviews of CDs and movies and most of the actual newspaper stuff that you see in it is comics that aren't funny and horoscopes that don't tell the future and ads for people who just want to meet other people and you can't be sure of who it is they want to meet because they have this code of letters mostly capitals like BJBiMISOsame.
If you're alone in a Motel 6 and there isn't a lot of vodka left in the bottle you start reading these kinds of newspapers. Especially if you remember in the very back there's about ten pages of pictures of girls with big breasts who say they want to meet you and when you have enough vodka gone and it's too early to go to bed you start thinking well, maybe they do. And you especially start thinking that when you're used to being in motel rooms where when you're by yourself you can switch to a channel where you can watch a movie that you can pay for when you check out that makes it not so hard to be alone in a motel room. But in motel rooms in Lawton Oklahoma they don't allow those movies, as he found out when he was switching off CNN but before he switched to ESPN.
So after he got tired of ESPN he went down the hall and got everything he needed for the night and took off all his clothes and sat down in the chair by himself which was the only way he could be just then and spread the paper in his lap and slid it a little bit forward as he leafed through it to the girls in the back so that he could reach himself and as he looked at the girls in the pictures he realized that the grainy black and whites weren't going to do it, not with those big black stars over their nipples and especially not with all the vodka he'd had.
So he thought for a little while about going to bed but it was still pretty early even if he'd had as much vodka as you should have on a Saturday night and it was only Tuesday. And after he'd thought for a while about how early it was and how pretty one girl in particular was and how no matter how much he pulled at himself nothing happened so he tipped a little more into the plastic cup with the melting ice and sweet dilute lemonlimey vodka and decided that maybe he should make a phone call.
He hadn't done this very often before so his hands were shaking a little bit when he cradled the beige receiver between his shoulder and his ear and he hoped his wife in Moline wouldn't see the bill when it came in because he sure couldn't use the company card. So he two-fingered a twisted Kent out of the nearly empty pack and lit it with a Bic and drew on it so hard as the phone rang on the other end that before someone picked up it was half gone, most of its length a long glowing coal like the kind of thing you expect from a guilty teenager hunched in the parking lot between classes. The phone rang and rang so by the time someone picked up there was finally enough ash to drop off into the sparse hair on his chest and he brushed it off onto the swelling mountain of his belly that nearly hid his stubbornly flaccid cock.
But when the person on the other end finally said Hey Baby he almost dropped the phone cradled as it was between his shoulder and his ear because he was trying at the same time to tip the last of the Smirnoff's into the plastic cup while grinding out the Kent that had burned all the way down to the filter. And he burned his index fingertip and nearly spilled out his plastic cup but he said back to her, uh, Hey Baby.
And she said Well baby where you callin from?
So he said, Manhattan. Yeah, Manhattan. I'm here for a big convention. He thought for a little bit and said, Internet software dealers. Dot coms.
Oh baby, she said. You must make a lot of money selling that Internet software to dot coms.
I do, he said. Lots.
Well baby you spend a little of that dot com money on me.
She had a nice voice, not a voice like you would expect to find on some kind of phone whore, who when he'd called them in the past always sounded like they weren't born in America or if they did they didn't sound white. No this girl sounded like she came from someplace where they didn't have sirens going at three in the morning. And she sounded as though she might be white and she even sounded as though she might not be some kind of seventeen year old with a pipe or a syringe right next to her bed, like he had seen that one time he had been on the road a long time, in Manhattan, twenty-five years ago on Seventh Avenue in a pouring rain and this girl had grabbed his arm and asked him if he wanted a date and he said hell yes why not and went with her up a creaky stair and paid twenty dollars cash to a man behind bulletproof glass who gave them a key to a little room, gray as fog, and said they had half an hour, and when they were in that little fog gray room under the bare bulb he saw how young she looked and he felt so bad for that even worse when he saw she had acne but it didn't make a difference because she lay down on her narrow bed and flipped up her short skirt and of course she wasn't wearing any panties and somehow despite all the beer he was hard and he dropped his pants and got on top with his shirt still on and his pants down to his shoes and he tried to drive into her but she stopped him and said, Honey, put this on, there's no telling what I have. And he rolled onto his back and let her roll a cheap unlubricated condom over him and he pushed it into her and she said, This isn't your first time, is it, and he said No hell of course not and she said well keep your knees together and with humiliated tears leaking out of his squeezed shut lids he came in a dozen strokes. And after it was over she deftly rolled off the rubber and dropped it into the wastebasket which he noticed wasn't empty.
But this girl didn't sound like that girl, who after all he thought years later when he read about all the things you could get if you weren't careful especially this new thing that had no cure and killed you he thought well, that girl maybe saved my life, I wonder where she is now.
But this girl on the phone said, Hey baby.
And he didn't say anything back because he thought about the last time his wife called him baby and that was a long time ago, before they stopped talking about anything except maybe how they were going to pay off the Discover card all the way sometime soon except they never did because there was nothing left when they paid off everything they had to pay because he didn't sell software to dot coms in Manhattan just kitchen goods to mom and pop hardware stores in a big chunk of country that people from Manhattan didn't even fly over and his wife didn't work at all because her second kid from the first marriage turned out bad and she needed to stay home because he had special needs. Like no one else had special needs. And the last time she said hey baby was before they knew he had those special needs and maybe it was even before they got married and he thought his special needs were what counted. And when after a while he found out he had competition he thought well I'll be good to him and she'll be good to me but that's not the way it worked.
Hey baby, said the girl on the phone. Cat got your tongue?
And he wanted to say to her something about his tongue or maybe her tongue but nothing came out because he thought about the times when he wanted to tell his wife about what he wanted her to do with her mouth but he never did because whenever he told her what he wanted her to do she got mad and rolled over and he'd lay there in the dark getting madder and madder and sometimes he'd get up and go into the bathroom and take care of himself and then he'd go into the kitchen and get the big half gallon under the sink and mix up something with Sprite or when there wasn't Sprite even Fresca or Diet Coke and go sit in the living room and once or twice she'd found him there in the morning and just didn't say anything which he thought wasn't so bad until it went on<|fim_middle|>67 thru #63):
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Come on, baby, said the girl on the phone. I can't do this by myself. What're you wearing?
And he wanted to tell her he wasn't wearing anything, he wanted to say baby I'm naked I'm sitting here naked and I'm hard for you, my big rock hard cock is throbbing for you, but he looked down at himself and he saw the big swell of white belly with its dark red moles and the thin line of coarse black hair fanning out as it passed his navel and the equatorial bulge blocked his view of what was between his hairless white legs splayed on either side of the Motel Six chair and he reached between his legs and touched himself with fingers damp and cold from the plastic glass full of melting ice and vodka and Seven Up and his cock shriveled as though it wanted to crawl up into his belly and hide. And he wanted to say baby I'm pumping my big rock hard cock but as he tugged at himself he thought about the nudist magazine he bought in Chicago last year at the trade show it wasn't like it was porn or anything it was called Young Nature and what could be wrong with nature but all these young girls in it on beaches in Europe somewhere some of them had boyfriends with them and you could see their ribs and hipbones and they all looked so healthy and he looked at himself and he didn't look like he should be on a beach anywhere and he wanted so bad to at least get hard so he could pretend just for this minute to be like one of them but it wasn't going to happen. Nothing was going to happen.
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When first reading "The Destructors", by Graham Greene, one might think they are simply reading a tale of childhood mischief. However, like all valuable stories, there are deeper connections that must be made in order to understand the author's motives. "The Destructors" tells the story of a gang of kids who aim to tear down an old man's house. This is a bit disturbing; it is not something most kids would spend their free time doing, and starts to give the idea that the story is a depiction of something greater. Indeed, as we will discuss, Greene is using his characters to portray a microcosm of post-war Britain. Specifically, Greene targets two central themes within this microcosm. The most important is the transition of attitudes over generations. We will see that this transition is a harmful one, and this is due to Greene's second concept of the destructive nature of mankind. The combination of destructive tendencies and this transition provides the reader with the story's ultimate message: human attitudes are nearly impossible to change over time, and war can create a cascade of destructive generations to come.
To establish this message, Greene employs the use of an allegory. The story itself is not just representative of the words on the page, but something much more important. In this case, characters may be symbolic of particular people in society, but more accurately, the view into the character's lives as children is symbolic of what they will become as adults. The conflicts that the characters undergo will be conflicts that they manage as adults, but on a different scale. For instance, the main conflicts for the kids are how to tear Old Misery's house down in the most efficient manner, and who should be in charge of the initiative. As will be discussed further, this can be translated as tearing down a country in war, and selecting a general for troops. To the kids, the conflicts probably seem like games, but due to the allegorical nature of the story, we can see that when these kids mature, these same games will be reality.
To analyze this story completely, the best method is to view the story as it develops scene by scene, rather than through individual characters. This method works best since the story is symbolic as a whole more than it is of any character. As the story opens, we learn of the Wormsley Common Gang, a group of boys that meet in a parking lot every morning. The text mentions that this parking lot is the site of the last bomb of the blitz, and that the leader of the gang, Blackie, claims to have heard it. However, the rest of the gang doesn't realize that the last bomb dropped when Blackie was one year old. From this we gather critical information to start our analysis. The blitz refers to the 8 month long bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II, which ended in May of 1941 [1] . We gather that Blackie is the oldest of the group, probably around 16. So that would place the story in post-war London around 1956. Thus, a transition is taking place with these children, who are too young to comprehend the war, but who are growing up in a state of disarray of their country.
Next, we are introduced to the newest member of the gang, T, who is typically silent at meetings. However, the children note that there were, "possibilities about his brooding silence" signaling that T may be contemplative, and a potential strong force later in the story. He speaks up one morning, mentioning that, "Wren built that house." The house he refers to is that of a man the kids call Old Misery, and was one of the only houses to escape the bombs. Christopher Wren was an architect that, as T mentions, built St. Paul's Cathedral in London [2] . This is a crucial piece of information because St. Paul's also miraculously escaped bombing during the war. Knowing this, we clearly establish that Greene is using the house and kids to represent the war. We also obtain details about Old Misery. His real name is Thomas, and he is an elder that was once a builder and decorator. Thomas was a man who built houses, and made them to look beautiful, but that beauty was lost in the war. The aspect to note here is that Thomas has experienced beauty and ugliness in his life, but the kids have only grown up in dreariness. This is proven when Blackie responds to T's comments with, "who cares?" With the exception of T, who seems to be more intellectual than the rest, the kids are growing up with the mindset that life is miserable, and destruction is the only option.
In the next scene, we learn more about Thomas. Thomas meets up with the gang in the lot one day, and gives them some candy he doesn't want. The gang is confused by this because they only see him as a mean old man. They begin looking for reasons that he might have done this, because they don't see that Thomas is actually a nice person. Once again, they are growing up seeing the world as bitter. They think that Thomas is trying to bribe them to stop throwing balls at his wall, so they "don't take the bribe" and throw them all day. Of course, Thomas doesn't say anything, because he appreciates their innocence. To him, the kids represent the life he had as a child. The fact that the kids call Thomas, "Old Misery" is ironic, because they are actually more miserable than he is.
The next day, the kids learn that T had been to Thomas's house. Moreover, they are astonished that T didn't break in or steal anything while there. The kids are only concerned with doing wrong to others, and can't believe it when T says the house was beautiful. This term completely escapes them; nothing is beautiful to them, and they immediately disapprove of T saying it. We start to think that perhaps T is the point of hope for the future; he is smart and seemingly more appreciative of life than his peers. However, this changes quickly. T mentions he found out that Thomas would be leaving town on holiday the next day. The gang switches back to accepting T, as there is now the potential of stealing things while Thomas is gone. T, however, has bigger plans; he wants to destroy the house. The kids initially think he is joking, but when they learn he has a legitimate plan of action, they are on board. Not only that, but they also declare T as their new leader.
Initially, T's actions seem to contradict his character. The beacon of hope that he first seemed to show is now gone. We first think that T appreciates beauty, but now he just wants to destroy it. From this, we can say that he recognizes beauty as something he never had, and wants to take it away from Thomas. T has intelligence, but he is using it to be devious and destructive. T is much like Hitler in this respect; he is smart, demonstrates strong leadership, and will use these strengths for evil. With Thomas leaving town, it leaves the kids to themselves, almost in control of the town. This is effectively showing the transition of ideas from young to old. The actions of the boys while Thomas is gone will stem from what they have been taught. Consequently, the boys have already chosen a leader to take them into destruction, much like the generation before them. The scene ends with some more symbolism. Blackie is considering leaving the gang since he has been overthrown. As the story says, he comes back because of the attention that the gang might obtain, but this really isn't true. He comes to stand in the "shadow of Misery's wall" which really means that he is standing in the shadow of something beautiful, something he never knew. He is back because he wants to take away the only beautiful thing left in Thomas's life.
A next point of analysis comes from the youngest character, Mike. As Blackie sets a meeting time, Mike says he has to be at church at that time. We can see here Mike's innocence and purity. However, the next morning he does arrive on time due to the fact that his mother was ill, and father was "tired after Saturday night". Mike's parents tell him to go to church alone, but why would he? His mother and father both make excuses not to go to church, making it seem like a chore. Mike will just do as his parents do<|fim_middle|>.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001).
[2] "BBC – History – Sir Christopher Wren." BBC – Homepage . N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/his
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Catu Grosso says:
I think is excellent as well as well written. I think it is very usefull to understand the backround information of the story. The Destructors is a story that indirectly shows you how people were affected after the ww2. And it shows you more thing that we in class didnt pay much attention. I think it was fantastic because this text analyse every part better than we have done it.
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Flor Araya says:
I really liked the text because it mentioned other things than the ones we had analysed in class. For example, that "The driver here represents the unwillingness of the current generation to fix anything after the bombings." because I didn't understand why the driver laughed at Mr.Thomas and now I understand that is the "current generation" that isn't willing to do anything about the bombing.
Lucila Giambruni says:
I partly agree with the phrase: "T is much like Hitler in this respect; he is smart, demonstrates strong leadership, and will use these strengths for evil." because this innocent child can not be compared to Hitler, but it is true that he shows a strong personality and uses the strengths for evil. I agree that "The Destructors" is a story which reminds us of the horrible effects of war through the children and the house conditions. I like the fact that the story is always reminding the reader that they are kids. I liked the text very much, because the story is narrated part by part with all the explanations and literary terms.
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The next point in the story begins the methodical demolition of Thomas's house. This isn't just destruction for destruction's sake, it is meant to dismantle the house, much like the bombings of the blitz were meant to dismantle Britain's war economy. The kids are meticulous, tearing up everything they can besides the wall. By the end of the day, we see that the inside of the house was completely in shambles. Everyone had worked hard, even Mike, who cut all the electrical switches. We see here how Mike, as a na¯ve kid, is giving up his innocence to the boys. He is a follower, and isn't smart enough to think about why he is tearing up this house. He is much like citizens of a country that simply follow an authoritative leader's goals, in effect, German citizens.
An important moment happens at the end of the scene, when T and Blackie burn Thomas's savings. Blackie originally thinks to steal the money, but T wants to burn it. T is motivated strongly to take every last thing away from Thomas. Blackie asks T if it's because he hates Thomas so much, to which T replies, "All this hate and love, it's soft and hooey. There's only things, Blackie." We see here how the aftermath of war has affected the kids. They never had anything positive in their life like Thomas, and resent him for that. Their emotions are limited to hate because of their current situation, and thus, will only continue to worsen things for future generations. Thomas may have some hope that the kids will return things to the old ways. This is false hope, as the next passage mentions a boy's parents driving out of town despite signs of harsh weather. They hope to escape to Brighton, a fancy town on the sea. This is symbolic of the parents' greater hope that things will improve for Britain; but as the harsh weather suggests, their children will neglect this improvement.
The next day, the destruction of the interior continues to completion. One boy, Summers, asks, "Why did we even start this?" He, like the others, is simply driven by the authority of T, and not by any true motive. The kids begin to flood out the house, just as they learn that Thomas is coming back early. When Summers suggest they have done enough, T replies, "No we haven't. Anybody could do this." He knows that leaving the walls would leave the opportunity for the inside to be rebuilt, and possibly made even more beautiful than it was prior. The house that remains with only walls clearly depicts the infrastructure of Britain's economy. After the blitz, the core of the economy was destroyed, and could have been rebuilt. However, the bitterness and destructive nature of mankind is exemplified in the gang. The gang will tear down the remaining walls of the house, much like they will neglect their economy when they become older. They have no desire to rebuild the beauty of England because they never experienced it. The house could be a place where the kids see how beautiful Britain was, and motivate them to have that for themselves one day. Their decision to tear the rest down parallels their ultimate neglect of Britain itself.
The story progresses and T is rattled by the thought that his plans might not fall through. His leadership is lost, as the gang sees T is cracking under pressure. They need someone to lead so that their efforts can continue. Blackie is the only one with experience and takes charge. Thomas is arriving, and the kids arrange a plan to divert him away from the house. T runs urgently to Thomas, telling him that a boy is stuck in his loo. T actually convinces him not to go into his house first, and has Thomas climb over his garden wall. Although Thomas says that "it's absurd," the fact that he climbs over seems to represent the ultimate transition of generations. Thomas isn't really in control any more. He is clinging to his house, the only thing he has left of his good memories, but the kids, the new generation, will soon take that from him. Thomas anticipates the loo's door will be locked, but upon giving it a hard pull, finds it isn't, losing his balance. With the door opened, the kids push Thomas into the empty loo, take the key, and lock the door. Old Misery is now out of the picture. As he sits in the loo, Thomas realizes that there was only one car in the lot, and everyone was out on holiday. No one will hear his cries for help; he is in a sense, the last of the old Englanders, and the fate of his house now lies in the hands of the next generation. As the scene ends, Thomas realizes that even if he did call for help, not even his enemies would hear him. His enemies, now, are the kids. Thomas is beginning to see that the kids will not be able to bring back the old splendor of England; they are enemies just like the German's who bombed his country.
The boys diligently continue to dismantle the house until it is completely gutted. Mike, the youngest, was the only one not present, for he had gone home to bed. Mike is blissfully unaware of what is happening. He is friends with these boys likely because they live in his neighborhood. He doesn't necessarily feel any strong conviction to tear down the house, but does so because he wants to fit in with the crowd. Thus, in Mike, Greene shows how these kids will negatively affect future generations, as well.
With the job nearly finished, the boys leave for home, but not without first checking in on Thomas. They bring him blankets and food to last him through the night, and this is kind of Kevorkianesque. Although Thomas may not die, his house which represents everything that he stands for is about to. The boys bringing him some comfort seems to act as a way to ease the pain that is about to be caused. The next morning, the owner of the lone car in the parking lot arrives. The driver heard faint screams from Thomas, but did nothing to investigate. The driver here represents the unwillingness of the current generation to fix anything after the bombings. As the driver pulls away he is startled when he feels his car seem to be pulled from behind, and is then pounded with an avalanche of bricks and stones. Getting out, he sees that a rope was tied to the back of the car to Thomas's house, and had pulled it to the ground. The fact that the driver was the one that pulled the house down and not the kids is the ultimate significant point in the story. Greene does this because the driver's generation is really responsible for teaching the gang's generation that beauty doesn't exist. His generation did nothing to attempt to rebuild the city after the bombing, and hence, the superpower that was Great Britain was conceded to Russia and the United States. The immediate generation following the blitz was subjected to living in unfair conditions, which accounted for a lack of love and pride in any area of life. Although the kids were the ones who planned the destruction, it was really a consequence of those who taught them there was no hope.
When the driver hears the screams again, he fetches Mr. Thomas from the loo. Even though Thomas is clearly and understandably distraught, the driver actually laughs at him, saying, "I can't help it, Mr. Thomas. There's nothing personal, but you got to admit it's funny." These words, "there's nothing personal," appear for the second time in the story. The first time we hear them is when T brings Thomas food, but won't let him out of the loo. The ultimate point being made is that the destruction isn't personal to anyone except Mr. Thomas. He is the only one who seems to remember England for what it used to be. In this microcosm, the house represented the only part of the England of old. Now that it is gone, no one will ever be able to understand that life could be more meaningful than they live it now.
On the surface, the title "The Destructors" seems to be chosen simply because the gang in the story destroys Mr. Thomas's house. However, it is chosen on a more meaningful level. The story is allegorical, and so is the title; the "¹…"destructors' are the overall destructive nature of man. Yes, we can say that the kids were destructors in the story, but from where did their destructive nature stem? The parents of these children had to live through the blitz bombing of their beautiful country. As a result, they became disparaged and bitter. Instead of any effort to rebuild London, the city was left in a deteriorating state, and the kids grew up without any concept of true beauty. However, why would the German's bomb England? They saw the kind of wealth and pleasure the British had, and wanted to take it away out of pure hate and greed. An interesting transition is created here. Before the war, the German's despised London for what it was, and destroyed it. After the war, the kids that grow up in London despise it for what it is, and actually want to destroy any part of London which represents the life that they missed. Now these kids are spiteful, and display the same destructive traits which caused their country's current condition. Through the use of allegorical elements Greene is effective in portraying on a small scale what was occurring on a large scale in England, and "The Destructors" is a story which reminds us of the horrible effects of war, the destructive attitudes that result from it, and how difficult it is to break these attitudes over generations.
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Scientists find miniature version of our solar system, with 8 planets and sun-like star
The Kepler-90 solar system has eight known planets, just like ours. In both cases, small ones orbit closer to the star and large ones are farther away. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel)
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Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90 — breaking the record for the star with the most exoplanets and, for the first time, tying with our own.
The planet Kepler-90i, described at a briefing Thursday and in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, demonstrates for the first time that other stars can host planetary systems as populous as our own solar<|fim_middle|> at Austin.
The same phenomenon could be at work here, scientists said.
But the exoplanet system differs from ours in at least one major way: All eight planets' orbits would lie well within that of the Earth, which takes 365 days to circle our own sun.
The researchers said they aren't sure why the Kepler-90 system has such a crowded field. It could mean that at least some of the planets formed farther out and were eventually drawn inward.
Regardless, it means that Kepler 90i, third rock though it may be, is too hot to be habitable.
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The findings also establish the growing role that neural networks and other machine learning techniques could play in the hunt for more elusive planets outside our own solar neighborhood.
"Kepler has already shown us that most stars have planets," said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington. "Today Kepler confirms that stars can have large families of planets just like our solar system."
Kepler-90i sits around a sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco. Like the Earth, Kepler-90i is also the third rock from its sun — though it sits much closer, circling its star every 14.4 days. The two small planets within its orbit (planets 90b and 90c) revolve around Kepler-90 every seven and nine days, respectively.
The next three planets beyond Kepler-90i's orbit (90d, 90e and 90f) fall into a sub-Neptune size class and orbit every 60, 92 and 125 days, respectively. The last two planets, 90g and 90h, are Jupiter-class gas giants, and take 211 and 332 days, respectively, to make a round trip.
All of the planets except for 90i were previously known. That put the Kepler-90 system in a tie with the seven-planet Trappist-1 system for the honor of most populous exoplanet solar system.
In some ways, the Kepler-90 system seems to echo our own, with small rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) closer in to the sun and larger, more gas-rich ones (Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune and Uranus) lying farther out.
Scientists think there's a reason the larger planets orbit farther from their sun: It's the cool place to be.
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Today the BC Sports Hall of Fame inducts a new roster of talented individuals and teams who have made our province proud through excellence in the realm of athletics. The Banquet of Champions will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre and will honor the following:
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Gary Gait, Lacrosse
Widely considered the greatest lacrosse player of all time, Victoria's Gary Gait revolutionized the way the modern game is played. A winner of every possible major lacrosse team championship, Gait won the NLL MVP award a record six times and remains the NLL's all-time leader in goals and points.
Paul Gait, Lacrosse
Like his twin brother, Victoria's Paul Gait also enters the discussion of greatest lacrosse player of all-time. Over his career Gait won twelve major championships, led the NLL in goal scoring four times, earned eight First-Team All Pro selections, and won the league's MVP award in 2002.
Trevor Linden, Hockey
Perhaps the most universally respected athlete in Vancouver sports history, Trevor Linden recorded six 30-goal seasons and led the Canucks to within a goalpost of winning the 1994 Stanley Cup. After his 2008 retirement, Linden became only the second player to have his number retired by the club.
Maëlle Ricker, Snowboarding
West Vancouver's Maëlle Ricker took on the world's best in her own backyard in 2010 and emerged Olympic champion in women's snowboard cross, the first Canadian woman to win gold on home snow. A month later Ricker locked up the World Cup Overall title. In 106 career starts she collected 14 victories and 32 podium finishes
Lauren Woolstencroft, Para Alpine Skiing
The 'Golden Girl' of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, North Vancouver's Lauren Woolstencroft became the first Winter Paralympian in history to win five gold medals at a single Paralympic Games. Earlier she represented Canada at the 2002 and 2006 Paralympics winning another three gold medals, one silver, and one bronze.
Tom Larscheid
The excitable, straight-shooting Canucks radio colour commentator for most of the past 33 years, Tom Larscheid's energized enthusiasm resonated through the airwaves working beside the legendary Jim Robson and later Jim Hughson and John Shorthouse. Larscheid also worked as the BC Lions' colour commentator on CKNW from 1975 until 2000.
Builder Category
Mike Jones, Wrestling
For over thirty years, Mike Jones' Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club has been a dynasty churning out eighteen Olympians, twenty-eight national championship teams, thirteen world and Olympic medals, eight NAIA team titles, and produced more individual champions than any other comparable program in North America.
Audrey Williams, Figure Skating
Involved for over fifty years, Vancouver's Audrey Williams is one of the all-time great figure skating officials from BC. Appointed an International Judge by the ISU in 1967, she judged the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, six World Championships, and four World Junior Championships. Williams remains the only female native British Columbian to serve as an Olympic judge.
W.A.C. Bennett Award
Marty Zlotnik
His remarkable drive, vision, and organizational ability have significantly shaped BC sport for decades. Through the Thunderbird Golf Society, the UBC Thunderbird Council, and the Millenium Scholarship Breakfast Zlotnik has raised millions of dollars for BC athletes. Zlotnik has served as president of the Kids Up Front Foundation, chair of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, and Vancouver Parks Board Commissioner.
Members of the 2010 Canadian Olympic Men's Hockey Team
Roberto Luongo, Scott Neidermayer, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Shea Weber
Pioneer Category
1933 Chinese Students Soccer Team
Gordon Chang, George Lam (Secretary), Jackson Louie, Lem On, Jack Soon, Shupon Wong (Goalkeeper & Team President), Dock Yip, Horne Yip, Gam Jung, Charles Louie (Playing Manager), William Lore (Vice-President & Treasurer), Buck Sing, Frank Wong, Art Yip, Gibb Yip, Quene Yip
"In an era when the Chinese population in BC was made to feel like second-class citizens, the Chinese Students Soccer Team stood as a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope, the only Chinese-Canadian soccer team in Canada and thought to be the only such team outside of China." Read more in this Vancouver Sun article.
The BC Sports Hall of Fame, which was located in BC Place, will soon be moving back into its space at the newly renovated stadium. Many of the inductees have also donated items to the Hall of Fame's new Olympic Celebration Gallery. Follow @BCSportsHall on Twitter or Facebook for updates and information about the grand re-opening.
Proceeds from the Banquet of Champions support the BC Sports Hall of Fame's HERO IN YOU Educational Program, working to inspire every child in British Columbia to find their own hero within.
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Miss604.com is a proud sponsor of tonight's Banquet of Champions event and I will be providing the liveblog throughout the evening (accompanied by photos from John). Follow the tag #2011BOC on Twitter starting around 5:00pm for live updates.
Check out full inductee biographies in this document (although many need no introduction).
Update 6:30pm: John and I arrived at the Vancouver Convention Centre in time for the VIP Reception. Several inductees were present and there was a special ceremony for young honourees.
There were two recipients of the Jack Farley Youth Sports Achievement Award: Kathleen Leahy of Victoria and Brian Malfesi of Maple Ridge.
Karen Magnussen presented awards to promising young BC athletes and they had the chance to get their photos taken with Roberto Luongo, Trevor Linden, Mike Jones, and Tom Larscheid.
Update 6:36pm: Everyone has been asked to take their seats (prying themselves away from the amazing silent auction prizes and the stunning north shore view) and soon Jill Krop and Steve Darling of GlobalBC will take to the stage to emcee the evening.
Update 6:45pm: We're just heading into the dinner portion of the evening but I'll pick things up in about one hour's time. The laptop will go away but I'll be tweeting @Miss604.
Update 7:00pm: Members of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, along with tonight's inductees, were just piped into the room as we all stood and applauded the honourees.
Update 7:15pm: Colin Brown, Hall of Fame & Museum Chair welcomed everyone to the banquet this evening. Sue Griffin, President & CEO of the BC Sports Hall of Fame just talked about their year "on the road" since they haven't had a home since BC Place has been under construction. They brought their collection to communities across the province, from Trail to Prince George. They're looking forward to the new Hall of Fame facility that will open in November, 2011.
It's 6,000 square feet and will host the largest Vancouver 2010 collection in the world thanks to many donations from athletes. Everyone in the room (about 1,000 attendees here tonight) just received a ticket to the grand opening.
Update 8:30pm: Bob Lenarduzzi and Ian Paton (of Paton Auctions) have taken to the stage following dessert to conduct a live auction. The first item up for bids is a winter storm getaway at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino. It sold for $2,300 and the next item is a stay at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia and it sold for $650.
The next item is "Golf with Trevor and Tom" and the value is listed as "priceless". It's a day of golf with inductees Trevor Linden and Tom Larscheid at Capilano Golf Club followed by drinks and dinner. The item just sold for $2,400. Following the golf package is a full page ad in the Vancouver Sun, valued at $25,000. Bob interrupted Ian at certain price levels to announce that the Sun would offer an additional ad should the bidding get up to a certain amount. The result is that three individuals had winning bids of $12,000 on three separate ads. That auction just generated $36,000.
All proceeds help the BC Sports Hall of Fame which is a non-profit organization that celebrates sport in BC.
Update 9:15pm: Tonight's first inductee is Maëlle Ricker. Steve Darling and Jill Krop sit down to interview her on stage. Steve asks what she's thinking right now. "I'm nervous," Maëlle replied. There was an early photo of her on one of the big screens where she's on skis so she was asked about how she got into snowboarding. The hosts then moved on to talk about her Olympic performance.
"I was trying I got all the lyrics right so none of my friends would bug me,"<|fim_middle|>ducted is a great honour. "It's an even better honour knowing that it's a sports hall of fame and not just a lacrosse hall of fame."
Update 10:15pm: The Hall inducts the 1933 Chinese Students Soccer Team. Members of their families are present to accept honors on the players' behalf. They gathered on the stage for a photo below the big screen that was displaying an old black and white image of the championship team. "They were all born here," said Mr Yip (apologies I didn't catch his first name) who is the son of a team member. "They were Canadians, although they weren't treated as Canadians."
"If you look at the image behind us, five of them are Yips, which is why there's so many of us on the stage today." Words of inspiration for Chinese Canadian athletes of tomorrow who see this team in the BC Sports Hall of Fame: "Future generations will come to the realization that it is possible if you work hard and train hard, that it is possible to win a championship and excel at your sport."
Steve Darling was just told by Mr Yip's widow that she was wearing her original wedding dress on stage tonight. I think my heart just melted.
Update 10:25pm: Audrey Williams is inducted next in the "builder" category as she helped grow figure skating programs in BC. She spoke about the evolution of figure skating, judging, and the sport today. She added that Patrick Chan's recent performance at the world championships was the best she's ever seen.
Update 10:32: In the "media" category is our second to last inductee of the night, Tom Larscheid. "I won't apologize, I wanted our teams to win every game," said Tommy. "I never had any training. I didn't go to journalism school or broadcasting school but the thing I learned very quickly in this business is 'be yourself'. That's what I've tried to do all these years. Show your personality. I love connecting with the listener or the viewer."
"In our business we take ourselves too seriously. We should always remember it's a game. It's an obligation to tell the story as we see it through our eyes."
Update 10:45pm: The final inductee tonight is Trevor Linden who gets a standing ovation. "I'm inspired and I love hearing their stories," said Trevor about all the other members of this year's inductee class as he sat on stage.
Trevor said that in his early years with the team Burke and Quinn told the players: "We expect a lot of you on the ice but we expect a lot of you off the ice." Those words stuck with him and inspired his volunteerism and activity in the community.
His brother also told him: "You can make a difference to a child just by showing up and not many people can do that… …You have to use that gift as much as you can."
"I was rooting so hard for the guys to get the job done," he added about this year's playoff run for the Canucks. "I think game 6 at the coliseum was one of the greatest games played in history," he said about his own run in 1994.
"I think every athlete can say that the support from their family and their friends is what gets them to where they are." In terms of coaches, Trevor gives a shout out to Pat Quinn. "Not only did he draft me, he drafted me out of high school."
"I think that certainly I wasn't the most talented player around. I think I applied myself and worked really hard. You have to figure out what you have to do to be successful… …There's one way to have success and that's to work extremely hard."
Update 10:55pm: That's all for the live blog tonight. All photos in this post were taken by John Bollwitt and you can see the rest in his Flickr set.
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Henry LeeTuesday, September 13th, 2011 — 11:02pm PDT
Rebecca and John, thanks for covering this event, and for writing/photographing the event so comprehensively!
Allison MailerWednesday, September 14th, 2011 — 12:02pm PDT
On behalf of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, thank you so much for the amazing life blog with photos of our Banquet of Champions. You captured the energy of the event and the inspiration of our new Hall of Famers. What a treat!
Robert YipWednesday, September 21st, 2011 — 7:41pm PDT
Excellent photos Re: Update 10:15pm: "They were all born here," said Mr Yip (apologies I didn't catch his first name) who is the son of a team member. "They were Canadians, although they weren't treated as Canadians."
That was Alfie Yip speaking, eldest son of Dock Yip, who later graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1945, became the fist Chinese Canadian called to the bar and then helped to repeal the Chinese Immigration Act which took place in 1947.
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Culture Days 2011 » | said Maëlle about the national anthem playing during her medal ceremony.
Jill also asked about how she's a role model for young women. "I heard Karen Magnussen say earlier tonight that you want to be gracious when you win and you want to be gracious when you don't. That's something you want to pass on."
Maëlle will be donating her freestyle snowboard from the Torino Games to the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
Update 9:20pm: The next inductees are BC members of the 2010 Olympic gold medal hockey team including Roberto Luongo, Scott Neidermayer, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, and Shea Weber. Scott Neidermayer and Roberto Luongo are in attendance tonight. Steve Darling asks the two men about the gold-winning game and in particular the overtime period.
"Obviously it was exciting and it was nerve racking. But, at the end of the day it's all for moments like that," said Roberto. "The guys did a great job of keeping their focus and that stayed with them into overtime," added Scott. "I think what we tried to do was get settled down. It was pretty disappointing to get scored on when we were that close to a gold medal… …I didn't know when it would end, I was just working toward getting it to end in our favour."
Jill asked Roberto how he feels about being inducted with the team. "I wasn't born in BC but having the chance to play in Vancouver, and play in the Olympics, it's something I will cherish." He added that he'll make a point of visiting the BC Sports Hall of Fame as often as he can.
Roberto Luongo will be donating his goalie mask from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
Update 9:35pm: Gary Gait's introduction video said he's the greatest lacrosse player of all time, "although his brother might have something to say about that." His twin brother Paul is also being inducted tonight. "I just keep playing and enjoying the game and good things just keep happening," said Gary. "Any time you play on a team sport it's like a fraternity, you're lifelong friends."
"Just like anything in life, you put the work behind it and success will come," added Gary. "That's what I try to teach my kids and that's what it's all about for me."
Update 9:45pm: Marty Zlotnik will be receiving the W.A.C. Bennett award next. This award is not handed out annually and this is only the 14th time it has been handed out.
Update 9:55pm: Lauren Woolstencroft, our golden girl (with 5 gold medals in a single Paralympic Games) is the next inductee. An astonishing athlete who has been decorated with countless medals for her achievements worldwide, she takes the stage with Jill and Steve. "It's a huge honor and it's an amazing class to be a part of," said Lauren.
Regarding Vancouver 2010, Lauren said it was an awesome experience. "We had so much media coverage which was great for the Paralympic Games."
Update 10:00pm: Mike Jones is the next inductee (he coached our wrestling gold medal winners Daniel Igali and Carol Huynh, among others) and has a proud SFU following in the house tonight.
Update 10:08pm: The next inductee tonight is Paul Gait, the other half of the dominating Gait brothers of lacrosse fame. He grew up a fan of rugby but lacrosse was where he found a home. Steve asked about playing alongside his brother. "It's been said that he's a little bit more pizazz, a little bit more flare and I have a little more power. But in my eyes it's just the opposite." He added, "We were competitive every day of our lives and having that extra challenge on an hourly basis or so just drives you."
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The eighth edition of the Šibenik Dance Festival this year begins on July 23rd at the most beautiful stage of Dalmatia - on the Fortress of St. Michael.
All lovers of dance art have the opportunity to enjoy in the top moves and dance steps organized by the Dance Association 'Sjene' in cooperation with the Tourist Board and the City<|fim_middle|> to 28 will be organized dance master class seminars and children's workshops.
The Šibenik Dance Festival is the only festival that offers a full-length dance program and dance education for young dancers. | of Šibenik.
Šibenik has become a dance floor for numerous dancers. Dance floors will be at the most attractive locations of the city – Fortress of St. Mihovil, Fortress Barone, Square of Croatian Republic near the cathedral of St. James and the Croatian National Theater.
The Šibenik Dance Festival this year begins on July 23 at the Fortress of St. Michael with a spectacular opening in two parts. The first performance is 'The Edge', which is a fantastic piece by Macedonian dancer Igor Kirov and after that you can enjoy in ballet 'Karmen' performed by the National Ballet from Pečuh.
The second day of the festival will take place at the Croatian National Theater.
The evening will begin with the performance of Modus dance studio from Zagreb with the choreography 'Connection for the future'.
The next performance will be performance of Ognjen Vučinić 'For four', produced by Masa Dance Company.
The third day will also be in the theatre where you will be able to enjoy at Balcan Dance Project Vol 3.
That same evening you can enjoy an extremely interesting program that will take place in the Croatian National Theater at 21 o'clock. It will start with the top performances of Ballet Study of Croatian National Theater Split and the 'Ritual consciousness' performed by the Contemporary Dance Study Teuta from Čakovec.
The fourth day you can enjoy the energetic performance 'Duet Inoffensivo' of Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc from Rijeka.
After that, it will be the third part of the Balkan Dance Project inspired by traditional music called 'Why you aren't here'.
Next to the cathedral of St. James will be presented the dance fantasy 'Dance, pray, live!' performed by an artistic organization by Ilijana Lončar.
'Transition Dance Company' will make the next amazing show that night and after that there is gonna be choreography 'Summa summarum – Iuventus ventus' by Vera Mitrović Vrbanec.
Again on Barone, on July 27, you can expect a real dance show 'One (s) 4all' performed by a highly talented Laura Lončar.
In the square in front of the cathedral of St. James you will be able to enjoy the dance show '1924' of Balcan Dance Projection and choreography by Sanja Peterovski called 'Koreofrenia'.
At the closing of the festival, there are gonna be presentations of the festival dance workshops and the performance 'Friends forever' of Šibenik Dance Theater 'Sjene'.
You will also have the opportunity to enjoy the film dance program that will be presented in front of Barcode Bar from 24 to 27 July.
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Played here on Sunday 2/9/12.
Things looked good to begin with, good facilities, driving range, practice area, friendly welcome, friendly starter.
Then we got onto the course, and it just all started to go downhill.
The course is an interesting one, or at least it would be if it was properly maintained. The grass on the fairway looked like it had not been cut for a while, and almost as long as the rough.
There was quiet a few burns, that just looked overgrown with grass, these really needed clearing out, and give the water a chence to create the hazards they were meant to be.
A couple of the bunkers were GUR due to the water in them, so much water, I though I spotted a couple of Koi Carp !!
The green were fantastic !!, no sorry, I meant they could be. Lovely contours, different levels, slopes, but again, looked like they had not been attended to in a while.
The course could be really good, but is just lacking in maintenance, and with the weather we've had, the course is starting to look a bit tatty. I've played quiet a few different courses this year, and its a real let down, when you find a course, that on paper looks OK, has really good layout, plenty of variation, doglegs, tight driving, testing short par 3's, and everything good about the course is just wiped out, due to lack of maintenance. Hard to say if this is due to lack of investment, or just poor management, I'd probably put it down to the investment, as we played on a weekend morning, suprisingly nice weather, and the course, car park, and club house when we finished were all very quiet. Not a good sign.
Just a little bit more proactive maintenance and this course could improve leaps and bounds.
Oh dear, never again. This course was in terrible condition, with weeds, clover and disease on most greens. Yardages were dubious to say the least, and there is a general air of a run-down and tired course - looks like they're short of cash? Clubhouse OK but a glance at the 9-holer suggested even less inspiring than the 18-hole layout. Sorry not for me.
Have been a memeber at Mouse Valley for a year now, and can just say that it gets no easier the amount of times you play.
The par5 12th provides the most remarkable scenery you woould imagine, and all but on of the par 3's are challenging holes.
Very challenging and entertaining course, and the staff are as friendly as you will meet.
I organised a company day<|fim_middle|> both the 9 Hole and 18 Hole to be in excellent condition despite our weather recently. The meals provided were enjoyed by all , however the choice is limited to two courses , a minor gripe . The 9 Hole course is relatively short and for the first 5 holes relatively easy , however the 6th and 7th are both quite testing holes.
The 18 hole course is a fair challenge , the front nine being longer with no water and the back nine being the complete opposite . Overall a fantastic day out enjoyed by all.
Mouse Valley is an exposed, almost inland Links type course. But it has very little bunkering, but plenty of water, which plays an important part in 9 of the holes. The signature holes are probably the 11th, a par 4 which you have to hit over water twice, and the 14th, a par 3 of only 111yds, but with a stream all round the green which makes it almost an island green, and the green itself is like an up-turned soup bowl, very tricky to keep the ball on the green.
Where is Mouse Valley Golf Course? | out at the Kames and all the feedback from those who attended has been positive . Everyone found | 19 |
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Dick Vet Rises to Second in latest Complete University Guide Subject League Table
Cat studies offer insights into progress of dementia
Assessing genetic diversity is vital for nature
Imaging team lends expertise to racehorse studies
Dick Vet student becomes first outside of North America to join VEA Summer Internship
Rabies campaign reaches milestone of success
CEPEF4 equine anaesthesia mortality study gathers data
Collie home with barely a scratch after sticky situation
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Looking back at an exceptional year of veterinary care
Hospital named best host venue in blood bank awards
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Data-Driven Entrepreneurship programme sponsor student to join Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy's Summer Internship Programme.
The Data-Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) programme and R(D)SVS have sponsored Archie Macpherson, a 4th-year vet student, to take part in a summer internship organised by the Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy (VEA). Archie is the first veterinary student outside of North America to enrol in the programme, which started as a pilot with five students at Texas A&M University and is now a nationally recognised programme in the US, matching entrepreneurially minded veterinary students with innovative animal health companies. Students on the programme learn the fundamentals of business and concepts relating to entrepreneurship, which they then apply to their experience of working with industry partners.
I'm really happy that DDE and the R(D)SVS managed to sponsor the first vet student outside of North America onto this internship programme, coordinated by the Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy. This internship programme is a fantastic initiative for veterinary students to consider how data-driven innovation and entrepreneurship could benefit animal health and welfare.
Dr Lawrence BrownInnovation Manager, Edinburgh Innovations
The School is committed to nurturing entrepreneurship on campus and boasts a range of initiatives and spaces created for this purpose, including the Roslin Innovation Centre.
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Competition for this place was fierce, with several strong candidates submitting their applications and taking part in interviews. However, Archie stood out as the clear winner of this sponsored opportunity and has begun a placement working with cryoablation company, Kubanda Cryotherapy.
With a course as clinically focussed as Veterinary Medicine, a chance to dive into the world of animal health business and entrepreneurial innovation was one I couldn't ignore. A week in, and I've already been immersed into the inner workings of the start-up company I paired with during interview week. The unique part to this internship is that I can put the tools and theory I learn from the VEA directly into practice with my company. I feel relied upon, and not a burden. The one-to-one learning opportunities allow each candidate to be introduced and challenged in their own areas of interest. This internship has been the greatest opportunity the University of Edinburgh has provided me. I look forward to flying out to the USA once travel restrictions ease.
Archie MacphersonR(D)SVS Student
Archie Macpherson
New student enterprise hub at the Vet School
Edinburgh Innovations and the DDE programme hope to use the momentum from this internship to develop more entrepreneurial, student-led initiatives on campus. There will be a new student enterprise hub at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, as well as an event the next academic year to launch an entrepreneurship club on campus for staff and students. This event will provide an opportunity to hear about Archie's experience first-hand, meet the Edinburgh Innovations' enterprise team, network with real-life biotech entrepreneurs and learn how to apply for the next summer internship programme with VEA.
Data-Driven Entrepreneurship Programme
Contact Dr Lawrence Brown to find out how to get involved with the various initiatives
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies is a one-of-a-kind centre of excellence in clinical activity, teaching and research. Our purpose-built campus, set against the backdrop of the beautiful Pentland Hills Regional Park, is home to more than eight hundred staff and almost fourteen hundred students, all of whom contribute to our exceptional community ethos.
The School comprises:
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Bennie was born<|fim_middle|> College in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied under artist and architect Thomas Searell. On completion of his studies he returned to Greymouth and set up in practice as an architect. In 1902 Bennie moved to Wellington and went into practice with E C Farr before establishing his own practice in 1905.
Some of Bennie's designs include the Albermarle Hotel, Wellington (1905), the Carnegie Library at Levin (1910), the Karori Methodist Church (1912), and the Oriental Bay Tea Kiosk (1912, demolished 1978). He designed a number of theatres including Kings (1910), Queens (1916), the Crown (1916) and Paramount (1917), all in Wellington and was also responsible for the design of many houses including the Wedge, Glenbervie Terrace (1906) and Bennie house, Salamanca road (1907) both in Wellington. He also had an interest in prefabricated house design.
Bennie was an inaugural member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, founded in 1905, and was later elected a Fellow. He retired in 1935 and his son Malcolm took over the Wellington practice.
[Source: an advertisment in the Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 58, 5 September 1902, Page 7 confirms that Bennie entered into partnership with E C Farr on 14 August 1902].
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Please note that entry on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rarangi Korero identifies only the heritage values of the property concerned, and should not be construed as advice on the state of the property, or as a comment of its soundness or safety, including in regard to earthquake risk, safety in the event of fire, or insanitary conditions. | in Ayrshire, Scotland, immigrated to New Zealand in 1880 and settled in Brunnertown near Greymouth. In the early 1890s he attended the Working Men's | 45 |
L'évaluation certificative consiste à certifier institutionnellement (devant la société, les autorités institutionnelles, les familles, les élèves, les étudiants, les collègues) les effets d'une action menée et considérée comme achevée.
. L'évaluation certificative peut prendre deux grandes formes :
l'une est liée à la notion d'examen, de l'ordre du bilan : l'évaluateur doit, au terme d'un apprentissage, certifier la maîtrise des connaissances et/ou des compétences en vue de prendre la décision de réussite ou d'échec et, éventuellement, la décision relative à un classement des apprenants sur la base de leur niveau de performance ;
l'autre est liée à la notion de concours, de l'ordre de la sélection : à la jonction de deux cycles d'apprentissage (l'un entièrement terminé, l'autre susceptible de s'ouvrir), l'évaluateur peut avoir à sélectionner un certain nombre de personnes pour une nouvelle filière de formation.
Une évaluation certificative vise avant tout à déterminer les acquis de l'apprenant tant d'un point de vue qualitatif que quantitatif. Autrement dit, l'objet premier d'une évaluation certificative est ce qu'il réussit. Elle a une fonction administrative et sociale, au contraire de l'évaluation formative qui a une fonction pédagogique.
Voici la différence entre l'évaluation formative et l'évaluation certificative :
l'évaluation formative a une logique de régulation afin de soutenir le processus<|fim_middle|>Notes et références
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Docimologie | d'apprentissage de l'élève ou de l'étudiant ;
l'évaluation certificative est, au contraire, un jugement à la fin d'un cursus d'études dans lequel il n'est plus temps d'apprendre encore (bilan, rapport, examen, certification, attestation, crédits, diplôme, etc.).
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Breakthrough Breast Cancer
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A breakthrough comms solution that paid for itself in the first year.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading breast cancer charity in the UK. It raises close to £20 million a year to support essential research into new treatments, causes, early detection and ensuring the best possible care for women diagnosed with the disease.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer It is famed for its direct, mass participation fund raising events.
People-centred and volunteer-based
Breakthrough Break Cancer is based in two centres 400 miles apart - London and Edinburgh. With a people-centred culture, the organisation maintained a relatively high level of staff travel between the two offices, with associated costs.
The organisation has about 140 users on its systems, split between permanent staff (40%) and volunteers (60%). It is key that the volunteers are connected to other people within the organisation in order to be up and running as quickly as possible.
Communications Legacy
The costs of Breakthrough Breast Cancer's phone bill were being met by a benefactor, including the free provision of an old Siemens PBX system.
Whilst not a direct cost, this arrangement increasingly lacked the flexibility that the organisation required to grow.
IT infrastructure challenges and requirements
Given legacy and budgetary constraints, not to mention the complexity of a predominantly voluntary workforce, Breakthrough Breast Cancer had some specific challenges to overcome regarding its IT infrastructure.
Nevertheless Paul Goodwin, Head of IT at Breakthrough Breast Cancer was deeply aware that IT held the key to improving performance at the charity.
He says: "We needed to upgrade our IT environment however we wanted to do it with minimal disruption and cost! For an organisation like Breakthrough it's crucial that we reduce the proportion of our income spent on running the organisation versus funding research."
<|fim_middle|> subject and the ability to come up with solutions to problems very quickly was excellent. Working with Forfusion was a very positive customer experience." | Instant Messaging, Desktop Collaboration and Video Conferencing
Forfusion's technical lead for Breakthrough Steven Pearson says: "Breakthrough's initial brief was to improve employee and volunteer connectivity and collaboration without the immediate cost of replacing the legacy telephony system. This was achievable using IM and Desktop Collaboration tools. However, we really wanted Breakthrough to get a taste of the future!"
"We put together a proposal that included Skype for Business – and with a few concessions to budget and timelines Breakthrough added the option to enable Video Conferencing into their Comms and Collaboration suite."
Comms and Collaboration Solution
Steven explains: "The project was delivered in two back-to-back phases: design, followed by implementation. Microsoft Skype for Business was built into a virtualized environment (VMware) on existing servers sited in the London office."
"The solution delivery was smooth and fast – and also included the configuration of a firewall for additional security."
Collaborative Comms Benefits
Within a fortnight, 140 users were enabled across the two offices at a total cost of £11k. This included £8k for services plus around £3k for licenses.
By eliminating internal travel costs however, this expense paid for itself within a single financial year.
Given the charity's funding aims this is a very important factor. However, more importantly, the Communications solution has enabled staff to work together far more effectively than before in three key ways:
Finding people: Microsoft Skype for Business works with Active Directory, which from a user perspective means that anyone can look up anyone else on the system. This is a big boost for a company with 60% of its workforce changing intermittently.
Knowing availability: Busy/Free indicators of Presence linked to Calendars enable workers to see when the best time is to schedule meetings or just pick up the phone.
Direct communication: Instant messaging enables a rapid contact. Upgrading that to a person-to-person video conference can be done in a single click.
New Possibilities
With an eye on the future, the Microsoft Skype for Business implementation has enabled Paul Goodwin to take the first steps towards resolving two other issues on the horizon.
The ageing PBX phone system, that would undoubtedly make any major change quite difficult.
The increasing appetite of staff, especially volunteers, to use their own devices – smartphones, tablets or PCs – with the inherent security risks that accompany it.
The last word goes to Paul Goodwin: "Forfusion is very professional in approach. Their knowledge of the | 503 |
All Iceland is offering this fantastic luxury short break. Pick up your 4WD rental car at the airport and drive to your hotel where you stay 2 nights in luxury at Hótel Gr<|fim_middle|> one of the many spas and swimming pools. We will send you plenty of suggestions of the "must see's" in the city as well as short day tours available such as Whale Watching. The Northern Lights can also be spotted from Reykjavík or a short drive away from the city, ask us for top tips on where to spot this natural phenomenon. | ímsborgir. The hotel is ideally located for Northern Lights viewing at night and exploring during the day. Over the next 2 days you can explore the area, see the famous Eyjafjallajökull Volcano and the beautiful Golden Circle. Stay the last night in Reykjavik in a 4 star standard hotel.
Arrival at Keflavík International Airport. Pick up your rental car and drive to the luxury country hotel, Hótel Grímsborgir. Relax at the outdoor Jacuzzi.
The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are an enchanting spectacle in Iceland's skies. When you see the Northern Lights dancing across the night sky, you are struck dumb with wonder. The Northern Lights are best seen between 9 pm and 2 am at night. After an exclusive optional dinner at the hotel, you go for a hunt for the lights outside. The hotel is ideally located for Aurora viewing, away from the city lights, to see the colourful dance of the lights.
Today we suggest you explore the Golden Circle drive and South Coast.The Golden Circle is a fascinating experience. You can walk around the world-famous Geysir geothermal area, a geothermal field where hot springs are in abundance. You will also stop by the magnificent Gullfoss waterfall and visit Þingvellir National Park, the original site of the oldest existing parliament in the world, and where the Mid-Atlantic rift is clearly visible; a rift that is slowly pulling Iceland apart along tectonic plates. Explore a bit further towards the South Coast and perhaps take an optional Ice walk on the glacier, Sólheimajökull in the area where the famous Eyjafjallajokull eruption was.
Overnight stay in the same hotel. Hunt for the Northern Lights in the evening.
Drive to Reykjavik in the afternoon or evening and stay one night in a 4 star standard hotel in the centre. Reykjavík is an exciting modern city with lots to see and do, or if you want to relax, visit | 422 |
He even received the top academic achievement award from the university. "The current business climate is evolving to be more challenging. Therefore, to continuously acquire knowledge and skills is essential if you want to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition," says Mr Ang of his decision to go back to school.
SCU's MBA programme is conducted locally by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). Comprising 12 modules spread over 20 months, it covers foundations of management, strategic management, project management, strategic knowledge management, human resource management, accounting and finance, international business and marketing, leading and managing people, organisational behaviour as well as information systems. Class sizes are small to encourage more effective learning. The students come from a broad range of cultural and corporate backgrounds, giving participants ample room to debate and learn from each other, with coursework requiring teamwork, group discussions and presentations.
"A vast amount of the programme is focused on developing our management skills. It has helped me to better analyse situations and issues and has improved my ability to make critical and effective decisions," adds Mr Ang. The lecturers bring their experience from the corporate world into the classroom, incorporating real-life lessons into their lectures. As a manager, Mr Ang found the strategic management module useful. "Every organisation needs business strategies in order to move the company in the intended direction, grow its business and improve its financial and market performance," he says.
"With strategic approaches, you can steer a company ahead of rivals to win a sustainable<|fim_middle|> registered under the Enhanced Registration Framework. For more information, visit www.mdis.edu.sg/academic-programmes/mdis-business-school/ master-of-business-administration-awarded-by-theuniversity- of-sunderland-uk.
Source:[The Sunday Times 30062013] © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. | competitive advantage." The course is structured for those who prefer to study part-time while working full-time. Mr Ang says it was challenging to juggle his studies, his work and frequent business trips in addition to finding time to spend with his wife and three children. "Lots of discipline, determination and perseverance are needed to get you through this programme," he says.
"Fortunately, my wife and my boss were very understanding and supportive, and with the help from my lecturers and classmates, I was able to overcome my difficulties." Having graduated from the programme, Mr Ang brings knowledge and renewed confidence to his work as the regional sales manager of a global professional audiovisual products manufacturer.
FOUNDED in 1956, MDIS is Singapore's oldest not for- profit professional institute for lifelong learning. Besides the SCU MBA, MDIS also offers other MBA programmes, including one with the University of Sunderland. This MBA programme starts in September this year. The British university is renowned for its high standards of teaching and research and has strong industry links and collaborations with leading global companies. With Sunderland ranked the best new university in north-eastern England by the Guardian University Guide last year, the internationally recognised MBA is aimed at graduates with significant business and management experience seeking to enhance their capabilities to function as senior managers within a wide range of commercial and service organisations.
Students can expect to develop their strategic management knowledge, competence and problem-solving abilities, and be familiar with international management practices and the development of effective business cultures and performance enhancement. The full-time programme will take a year to complete while parttime students will take 18 months. MDIS is committed to high quality standards of education. Its achievement of the EduTrust Certification (four years), awarded by the Council for Private Education in 2010, attests to the institute's exemplary education and business excellence standards. MDIS is also in the first batch of Private Education Institutions to be | 389 |
Blues Specials This Weekend
June 25, 2020 by Two for the Blues
I wrap up the blues radio specials which began with the COVID19 restrictions at the Station on March 28. On Blues Cruise Friday night from 6-8 PM Central Daylight time the featured artist is Jody Williams. He got his start with Bo Diddley playing on the streets of Chicago with Bo's band, E llis McDaniels and the Hipsters. Jody did a lot of studio guitar recordings in the 1950s for other artists and was Howlin' Wolf's guitarist when he first came to Chicago. His instrumental, Lucky Lou was borrowed by Otis Rush as the basis for Otis' hit All Your Love. It would also be used by Peter Green for guitar licks used in Black Magic Woman. Jody also wrote the original "Love Is Strange" that was a huge hit but unfortunately, he never received credit for his efforts. Jody became disenchanted with the music business and dropped out of performing and recording from the l960s-90s. He re-emerged in 2000 as a bluesman and in 2002, his highly regarded recording Return of a Legend on the Evidence label brought him well deserved attention. That's when we caught up with him for the interview and original broadcast of this feature. (photo<|fim_middle|> a few. Bob sold the label in 2018 but continues to run his record store now located on Rockwell St in Chicago. Both radio shows will be available on our station's archive fof 2 weeks following broadcast. We return to regular programming next week with Dave Watts producing Blues Cruise and Art Schuna doing Two for the Blues.
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Two For the Blues wraps up the radio specials on Saturday night from 8-10 PM Central Daylight time with a radio special on Bob Koester and Delmark records, a label he founded in 1950s in St. Louis. Delmark and Bob Koester have been a major force in the promotion of Chicago blues. His record store, Jazz Record Mart has been the best place in Chicago to find those obscure blues and jazz recordings and was a meeting place for those inte rested in this music. A number of other record label entrepreneurs got their start at JRM including Bruce Iglauer (Alligator) and Michael Frank (Earwig). Charlie Musselwhite worked at the store for a time. I caught up with Bob Koester for an interview which led to this radio special just prior to the 50th anniversary of Delmark. Delmark recorded a Who's Who of Chicago blues including Junior Wells, Magic Sam, Luther Allison, Big Joe Williams, Lurrie Bell, and Johnny B Moore to name | 215 |
Here is the WORDart I designed for the Word Art Wednesday challenge blog this week. The Word Art Wednesday blog is such a great place to find encouragement and inspiration.
Esther<|fim_middle|> WORDart today. You will definitely want to stop by and download it. It's beautiful!
Thanks for the beautiful word art, Karen...and for the sweet link to my blog!
This is beautiful!! Thank you for sharing your talent and God's Word!!!
Thank you for the beautiful word art, Karen and for the link to another freebie.
Thank you for the word art, Karen, and the links.
Wonderful word art Karen! I love the script you used! | (Shoregirl) is the guest designer this week --and for the whole month. She made the most amazing card. I just love it! She has a great tutorial on her blog on how to add effects to WORDart in Word. She also has the graphic she created available as a freebie.
Abby (Little Birdie Blessings) also has a freebie on her blog using my | 81 |
Q:<|fim_middle|> we can work with the operator alias of fmap: (<$>):
elem :: IO Int
elem = (list !!) <$> generate ran
It is probably better, as @AndrewRay says, to use another name, since the Prelude already contains an elem function. For example randElem:
randElem :: IO Int
randElem = (list !!) <$> generate ran
| Random element from list Haskell I'm trying to get a random Int from a list and I'm having some issues because the only libraries that we're allowed to use are QuickCheck, GHC.IO and Data.List.
So far I managed to get a random IO Int by using:
ran :: Gen Int
ran = choose (0,3)
(The list has length=4)
But when I call
elem = list !! generate ran
I get: Couldn't match expected type 'Int' with actual type 'IO Int'
And i'm pretty sure you can't "extract" only the Int from an IO Int so i'm kinda lost.
¿Any ideas?
A: You can work with an fmap such that elem is an IO Int:
elem :: IO Int
elem = fmap (list !!) (generate ran)
or | 168 |
I Intervened When I Saw A Guy Abusing A Woman. Then I Learned How Wrong I Was.
admin July 21, 2021 11 min read
Editor's Note: This piece contains a description of domestic violence, which could be triggering to some.
In a densely populated walking city like New York, life happens outdoors. People use their stoops, sidewalks and local parks as their living rooms ― especially in the summer ― which can contribute to an amazing sense of connectedness and community.
It can also make walking home from the subway at night feel like that opening villager scene in "Beauty and the Beast," except instead of everybody yelling "Bonjour!" they're sexually harassing you.
So many people eating, drinking and generally living on top of one another also means that sometimes you witness some pretty intense interpersonal conflict and even violence, whether it's a fight breaking out on the subway or a man putting his hands on a woman during an argument. I've seen the latter twice in my 20 years in New York City, and both times, I went into sort of a rage blackout that surprised me, since I'm the kind of person who just eats what I get when the waiter gets my order wrong.
The first time, I was a college student and I followed a couple for a few blocks while the guy shoved and threatened his girlfriend. I felt compelled to "keep an eye" on the situation. But as a 20-year-old, I had no idea how to help and was relieved when the guy finally stormed away.
The second time was a few weeks ago, in the middle of the day at a small playground in my Brooklyn neighborhood where I was caring for my 9-year-old son and two of his friends by myself. The playground was sparsely populated for a Friday afternoon ― there were just a couple of other solo moms with their very small kids running through the sprinkler and climbing on the jungle gym.
For the better part of an hour, a couple was sitting on a bench in a remote corner of the playground having an argument. As things got more heated, the kids came over to tell me people were yelling at each other, and some of the moms started to exchange eye contact.
"Do you come to this playground a lot? Have you ever seen them here before?" a mom asked as she approached me with her phone in hand. "I'm thinking about calling someone."
I looked at the couple, who were very young, and Black, and then at my kid and his friends, who are also Black, and sincerely hoped she did not.
I sent the kids over to the basketball court, where they were in sight but away from the situation, and kept one eye on the fight, which continued to escalate until the couple was standing and moving around the playground as they yelled.
Suddenly, the guy reached out and gave the woman a hard shove. I instinctually rose to my feet, then realized I had no idea what to do. There was no one else around but the two other mothers, each juggling kids much younger than mine. I stood there frozen for a minute.
"HEY! Are you OK?" I finally settled on yelling.
"Me? Oh yeah, I'm fine," the woman responded, as if I'd just seen something nonchalant, like her tripping on a subway stair.
They sat back down, and for a minute, things seemed to have been defused, but a few seconds, later they were back up — and the man escalated to punching the woman repeatedly in the torso. This time, I charged the distance across the playground without thinking, stopping about 10 feet away from them and yelling at him to get away from her. Ignoring me completely, he continued to beat this woman in broad daylight without a care in the world.
I had tunnel vision. The world narrowed down to me, this man and woman, and the distance between us. I was acting on complete adrenaline and some kind of primal instincts kicked in like I was an antelope visually tracking a lion.
"Listen, you gotta take your hands off her," I tried. "I really don't want to call the cops, but you've gotta take your hands off her."
In response, he grabbed a bucket of water some child had left in the splash pad, dumped the entire thing on her, and then pushed the empty bucket onto her head. As I continued to plead with him, he pushed her against a chain-link fence and ripped her entire shirt off until she was standing there in her bra with one strap torn loose.
She turned and looked me in the eye and spoke: "Call the cops."
I had tunnel vision. The world narrowed down to me, this man and woman, and the distance between us. I was acting on complete adrenaline.
I dialed 911, running to the playground entrance to read its name off the plaque. I'd been coming to this playground for my son's entire life and had never known what it was actually called ― all the kids and parents referred to it as "froggy park" for what remain mysterious reasons.
The couple followed me, and as I explained the situation to the dispatcher, the man turned his attention my way, advancing toward me on the sidewalk and yelling "What are you calling the cops for?" over and over as specks of his spit flew at my face.
"He's coming at me now," I told the dispatcher, taking two steps back for every step he took forward, my arm extended in the universal sign for "back the fuck up off me." We stayed locked in this awkward samba for a few minutes, with me yelling "You need to get away from me!" every time he took another step forward. After a few minutes, a set of police officers approached from behind me and the guy bolted.
Since I'd just dialed 911 minutes ago, I assumed these officers were responding to the call from the other mother who had spoken to me before, and I felt slightly bad for initially thinking she was a bit of a Karen. Whether I thought her call to the police was warranted at that point or not, I had to admit they'd shown up at just the right time.
I fished an unopened bottle of water from my bag for the woman who had been attacked and texted an explanation of what had happened to the mother of my kid's friends, also asking her to bring the woman a new T-shirt since her old one was in shreds.
The kids had wandered back over from the basketball court and witnessed the tail end of the confrontation and were now staring at me wide-eyed, so I took them over to a bench and talked to them about what had happened, while the police were questioning the young woman.
Everybody was a little shaken up, and while I was especially concerned about potentially traumatizing somebody else's kids, they were back to playing a few minutes later, and I ultimately felt I had done the right thing ― or at least that somebody had had to do something.
In the days that followed, however, I became less and less sure. I had trouble sleeping, laying awake at night and playing out scenarios in which the police hadn't shown up at just the right moment or the guy had a weapon.
I told a friend, a lawyer for the NYPD, the story and he chastised me, telling me it was incredibly dangerous to "interrupt a domestic." A mom friend remembered a similar story from when she'd been in San Francisco. She said the intervening woman had been filming the guy, right up until he walked over and stabbed her in the head.
"Maybe that wasn't the best story to tell you…" she tapered off.
It started to sink in just how dangerous my actions had been and how seriously I had jeopardized my safety. I started to mentally play out scenarios where I'd been killed that day, imagining the aftermath. Pros: I'd probably make the New York Post, maybe even with a nice headline. Cons: Three children traumatized for life. Also, you know: being dead.
A friend gave me some pepper spray in case I ran into the guy again in the neighborhood, and that made me feel a little better. But I also wondered: Had I made things worse? I hadn't wanted to get the police involved and the police had gotten involved. The man's actions had possibly gotten even more violent and degrading after I intervened.
I wanted to know what I should have done in that situation. I couldn't imagine watching a man assault a woman in the middle of the day in front of everyone and doing nothing, but I knew there must be methods for deescalating potentially violent situations and ways to prioritize my own safety.
I hadn't wanted to get the police involved and the police had gotten involved. The man's actions had possibly gotten even more violent and degrading after I intervened.
A Google search led me to Hollaback!, an organization that aims to eliminate harassment in all forms partly by training people to intervene in situations where someone is being harassed because of their gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, or other marginalized identity. I signed up for two virtual trainings in bystander intervention, one focused on street harassment and one focused on anti-Asian-American and xenophobic harassment.
The methodologies taught in these trainings are not specifically intended for situations that have already turned violent. What I had attempted to do (without realizing it or having any idea how to do it), was conflict deescalation, which Hollaback! also offers trainings in.
Conflict deescalation is based on trying to connect and empathize with the violent or potentially violent individual to "deescalate" their feelings. Before attempting to deescalate conflict, you're supposed to observe the situation and ask yourself if you're the right person to step in, based on factors including whether your identities put you at increased risk.
For instance, as a woman, stepping into a conflict with a guy who likes to beat up women maybe wasn't the greatest idea. (And it certainly would have been a great time to have a dad on the playground.)
But even if you decide that it's not safe for you to intervene directly, one of the D's in Hollaback's "5 D's" for intervention, there are still 4 other ways to do something without getting directly involved. Again, these strategies are intended for witnessing harassment, but most of them are still relevant here.
One option is to delegate ― essentially, ask somebody else for help. This especially applies to authority figures or people in charge of the area like a security guard, flight attendant, teacher or store manager. You can also delegate to another bystander, saying something like "Hey, do you see that? Can you say something? I can't today, my kids are with me." Multiple bystanders create an environment of safety, according to the training.
According to Hollaback!, since members of many communities don't feel safer when the police are around, you should check in with the person who is being harassed and ask what they would like you to do before calling the police.
Another option is to distract ― literally, make a loud noise or spill something or approach the target and start a conversation by asking for directions or pretending to know them. With this strategy, you're supposed to focus on the target and let the harasser fade into the background.
You can also document ― once the person is getting help in some way, this is filming the situation discreetly/from a distance. If possible, film street signs or other landmarks to identify the location and say the date and time. Hollaback! emphasizes that you should only send the footage to the person being harassed and let them decide what they want to do with it.
And finally, you can delay. This is where you approach the target after the fact and check in with them, letting them know that you saw what happened and it wasn't OK. You can ask them questions like "Are you OK?" "Do you want me to sit with you?" "What do you need?" According to Hollaback!, research shows that even a knowing glance can reduce trauma from harassment, letting them know that you see them and they're not alone.
If you do decide to intervene directly in a harassment situation, Hollaback! emphasizes quickly setting a boundary with the harasser, such as "Hey, you need to stop what you're doing," then turning your focus to the person being harassed to get them to safety and avoid escalating the situation.
Next time, I'll pause to think more critically about my ability to intervene safely and the very real possibility that I could make the situation worse.
In my situation, my focus was largely on the attacker, which I now realize led to a back-and-forth and potentially escalated the violence. If I was going to focus on him, I would have wanted to utilize the conflict deescalation skills Hollaback! teaches, which, they emphasize, require a calm and relaxed approach, not the adrenaline-fueled rage blackout that sent me careening into the conflict on the playground that day.
I couldn't know what I didn't know, and I'm not going to beat myself up for sincerely trying to help. The woman and I spoke about her situation a bit after she was safe, and I think about her and hope she was able to disentangle herself from it. My son and his friends are fine now, and maybe I even showed them that<|fim_middle|> Court He Wrote Infamous 'Cadaver' Note
Princess Beatrice Explains Why She Sees Her Dyslexia As 'A Gift' | we need to stand up for people who need help when we see them. ("Everyone on the playground was saying you're a hero!" my son told me shortly after the incident. Nevermind that "everyone on the playground" was median 7 years of age.)
But next time, I'll pause to think more critically about my ability to intervene safely and the very real possibility that I could make the situation worse before I go charging in. I'll probably always be the kind of person who feels compelled to do something. But as I learned in my trainings, doing something doesn't have to mean doing everything. It can be as simple as being the first person to turn to the person next to you and say, "Hey, do you see that?"
Ultimately, we're all safer when we work together to keep each other safe and help create a better world.
You can sign up for bystander intervention training with Hollaback! here.
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India's first ever mobile, internet and technology event on a global scale, the Mobile India Congress 2017, kicked off in New Delhi on Wednesday.
India's first ever mobile, internet and technology event on a global scale, the Mobile India Congress 2017, kicked off in New Delhi on Wednesday with an aim to foster digital inclusion in India.
The stellar inauguration ceremony, held at Pragati Maidan, featured several high-profile ministers – Manoj Sinha- Minister of telecommunications of India, Ravi Shankar Prasad- Minister of Information Technology of India, Dharmendra Pradhan- Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Satish Mahana- Minister of Industrial Development in the Government of Uttar Pradesh – and giants of the industrial and telecom world – like Mukesh Ambani- Chairman, Managing Director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited and Sunil Bharti Mittal- Founder & Chairman of Bharti Enterprises– highlighting the shift towards a multi-stakeholder approach to digitise India.
MeitY secretary Aruna Sundararajan and other top executives from the telecom industry reflected on the need to form a common platform for the government and private firms to help India take definitive steps towards digitisation and inclusion of those unconnected.
"We need to ensure that the use of mobile phones can deliver quality healthcare and education services, apart from banking. We want to connect the unconnected and serve those who haven't been served to make sure the mobile technology helps many beyond the 100 million urban users with the latest devices," Sundararajan said. "IMC 2017 is a marquee event aimed at showing India's strength in telecom to the world," she added.
The event was inaugurated by Minister of State (Independent Charge) Communications, Manoj Sinha, who also echoed on the need for digitisation for India's development. "Connecting the next billion Indians to the worldwide web is the single biggest opportunity in India. The word is digital, becoming synonymous with every aspect of our daily life," he said. "The government is doing its best to improve ease of doing business in the IT and telecom sectors," Sinha added.
"Data is the new oil, India does not need to import it. We have it in abundance. Data is the oxygen of the Indian economy, we cannot deprive Indians of it," he added.
The presence of the two stalwarts together on stage was not missed by many, given the fierce battle the two companies have been engaged in since the launch of Reliance Jio. So much so, that Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan couldn't help but take a sly dig at their expense.
"Healthy competition between Ambani bhai and Mittalji has become on one of the biggest boons for the Indian consumer. Now, thanks to their<|fim_middle|> process of digitisation.
The event includes a conclave, an exhibition and an awards ceremony as well as thematic pavilions and innovation zones. It is expected to attract more than 500 start-ups, 2,000 delegates from India and other countries. | fierce rivalry, data has been capped and can be enjoyed at nominal costs," he said.
One of the key aspects, and possible apprehensions, of fast-paced digitisation is the procurement and storage of huge amounts of sensitive data.
The need for a robust security system before implementation of digitisation in the financial, education and medical sectors has been flagged as a concern by many over the years.
The recent privacy debate over Aadhaar and the safekeeping of an ever-expanding database of sensitive data was a theme echoed in many of the keynotes on Day 1 of the event. More so, as the future of digitisation in India looks to encompass almost all aspects of one's life – financial, personal, or otherwise – by bringing it under the ambit of the UID scheme.
"Schemes like Aadhaar pose challenges for data protection. How to keep data safe for governance? Hence, content and data security layers need to be explored and researched on further," Kumar said.
"From the government's perspective, Digital India is a flagship project. But for driving change through technology, one must ensure that the change is sustainable and safe," he added.
Privatisation of governance: A compromise on data sovereignty?
Another possible loophole in entrusting global private firms with sensitive data arises because of the lack of definitive laws governing or overseeing the exchange.
Data localisation is considered to be an absolute necessity to ensure data sovereignty. Just recently, Google launched its UPI-based payment gateway Tez. At the event, the tech giant was asked about data localisation and whether the financial data it gathers would be stored abroad.
While no definitive answer was provided, the issue was dismissed by saying that the data will be stored on Google cloud, and that the location of the cloud was not known. Google also declined to comment on whether this data could be used for its ad sense feature.
When Firstpost asked Rekha Jain, an information systems professor at IIM-A, who was a part of the panel, about the issue, she said that clear laws are needed to oversee the exchange of data to ensure its security.
The three-day event will look to explore different aspects of various themes like Digital India, internet governance, the future of smart networking and the digital identity in a digital world. Over the course of the event, experts from their various technical and academic fields will examine the intricacies of the | 476 |
The ACS Examinations Institute is unique among academic disciplines. It produces nationally normed exams for most chemistry courses, ranging from high school through the entire undergraduate chemistry curriculum in the United States. Many graduate programs use ACS Exams to measure the content knowledge of students starting graduate school.
All ACS Exams are created by committees of educators who teach the course for which an exam is intended<|fim_middle|> Institute. She assumed this position in July 2015, after spending 10 years as the Associate Director. Jeffrey Raker, a chemistry professor from the University of South Florida, is the Associate Director, also assuming that position in July 2015.
Julie Adams is the Business Operations Manager who oversees the Business Office in Berthoud, CO, which is responsible for the delivery of test materials for the Examinations Institute.
The Berthoud office has two additional staff members, Cherie Mayes, office assistant, who works with fulfillment and bookkeeping activities and Steve Koester, shipping clerk, who serves as the shipping coordinator.
The operations of the Examinations Institute are overseen by the Board of Trustees – a committee of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society.
The value of assessment materials to the chemical education community is a direct result of volunteer efforts of hundreds of high school and college chemistry educators from throughout the United States. The programs of the Examinations Institute provide an excellent way to become involved in national programs of the Division of Chemical Education, and we always welcome volunteers. The best way to begin is to offer your service on a test committee in your area of specialization. Send an email message to: acsexams@examsinstitute.org with your name, complete address (including phone, FAX, and email), and a short paragraph describing your professional background and teaching situation. | . No governance body of the American Chemical Society dictates content coverage of any exam. In this sense, while the exams produced by the Institute can rightfully be called standardized exams, they are the result of volunteer, grass-roots efforts from teachers "in the trenches". Few, if any standardized tests in the US are derived from such a format.
The Examinations Institute has two tiers of leadership: one that works with the development of our exams and other intellectual property, and another that more directly manages the business components of the Institute.
Kristen Murphy, a chemistry professor from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, is the Director of the Exams | 128 |
'Superfly' Trailer: The 1970s Film Gets A Modern-Day Update
By Chris Evangelista/May 6, 2018 12:00 pm EST
Gordon Parks Jr.'s 1972 blaxploitation film gets a slick modern update with 2018's Superfly, a new movie from a filmmaker Director X. Watch the Superfly trailer below.
In 1972, the blaxploitation film Superfly hit theaters and unleashed a killer soundtrack featuring songs like "Pusherman" by Curtis Mayfield Now here comes Superfly, which brings the story into the 21s century and throws in some cryptocurrency for good measure.
Superfly Trailer
The original Superfly focused on Youngblood Priest, "a stylish Harlem drug pusher trying to score one last big deal before retiring from a life of crime." I'm not entirely sure if that's what the focus of this new film is, though. The trailer is a bit low on plot, and the film's official synopsis doesn't entirely offer much insight either:
Superfly – the film that helped define a genre in its characters, look, sound, and feel – is reimagined with Director X, director of legendary music videos (Drake, Rihanna), introducing it to a new generation. The screenplay is by Alex Tse.
The focus here seems to be on the film's director, who goes by the very cool moniker Director X. He showed off some Superfly footage at the recent Cinema Con, and offered some insight into his take on the material. "Superfly is timeless," the filmmaker said (via THR). "It is the definition of cool. It is about the fashion, cars, hair and music. While the location has changed, moving from Harlem, New York to Los Angeles, one thing has remained: the hustle."
Yeah, but...what's it about? Director X offered a little more detail to Deadline. "If you know the original Superfly, you're going to see your favorite characters," the director said. "They're not going to have the exact same thing happen to them but you can see it's inspired by the original film." He also added: "This is an action film...We're light on moral lessons."
"When I went back and watched the original, I was struck by how relevant the themes are," Director X said in an earlier interview. "The pursuit of the American Dream is eternal – everyone's always on the hustle, because you've got to be... and_ Superfly_ is about pulling off the ultimate hustle to get out of the game. Our goal is to make it modern – to make a movie where the style, the art direction, the camera movements are all part of what makes the movie Superfly. With this film, my goal is to honor the lineage of an iconic title that the community has loved for decades."
Overall, this trailer is pretty slick, featuring some cool cinematography and cool style. Superfly stars<|fim_middle|> Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Lex Scott Davis, Jennifer Morrison, Jacob Ming-Trent, Andrea Londo, and Omar Chaparro. Look for it in theaters June 15, 2018. | Trevor Jackson, Jason | 4 |
As half of December already passed, Christmas rush is in the full bloom, it is also this special time when you start to have this strange feeling. This undefined concern. I call it New Year's anxiety.
And I don't mean here that time flies and here it is almost New Year's Eve, we're getting older, maybe I should start a new gym membership stuff. I mean hey, a new year starts, I wonder what will it bring, what should I do with my life kind of thoughts.
Should New Year's anxiety be scary?
These are good thoughts, but our wired brains (explanation here: Motivation behind Just Redefine) turn them often into total panic-full meltdown.
Planning is great! You should be doing that and it's awesome if you find the way that is efficient, works for your needs and makes you happy.
To don't feel the anxiety I'd recommend making an old-fashioned brain dump of everything that scares you in this coming year and then make a clear goal vision out of it.
Do you<|fim_middle|> admit – I'm not a fan. I heard once in some online training that it's great to create nice sentences on paper but you need much more to make it effective. Couldn't agree more! That's why I'm focusing on mindset mostly – so efficient and beneficial. But I totally agree with you that deadline is helpful as well as being specific in planning actionable steps 🙂 Good luck with your projects!! | need stickers and feathers in your notebook to do this? I don't know, you tell me!
If making it pretty makes you happy – you should add more gold to page one! But if changing colors of your favorite gel pens takes you all the time you have for the execution of your plans then maybe re-think your system.
Another thing to remember – New Year's anxiety doesn't mean that a week after the beginning of January you can forget about everything! Because then, frustration and nervousness come back and hit you twice as hard!
Work on your goals and self-development all year long. Especially if you're struggling to make things happen in your life and/or business! Key to make your hopes and dreams a reality is to set and track your goals.
You can start now by downloading the printable goal planner below OR in a simple composition notebook if you know how to make it work.
In today's fast-paced world, it's so easy to lose sight of our goals. It's a struggle to stay on top of everyday tasks let alone achieve some long-term plans and intentions.
If you're hoping for being where you thought you would be at this point in your life, now is the best time to work on it!!
These are such great points! I need to set out my goals for 2018 (but first I have to get through Christmas!! Lol) I'm a big fan of a planner…for me it really does help ease anxiety!
Thanks for the great advice. This time of year is certainly overwhelming, so anything helps!
Hey Aga, thank you! I am well aware of the SMART goals theory but I must | 333 |
MainAll NewsGood News'Zionism, Meshugas and Medicine'
'Zionism,<|fim_middle|>," added LeRoith. "It will give me the chance to develop an internationally-recognized center that combines the exceptional expertise of the Technion, Rappaport and Rambam.
"On an individual level, it allows me to make Aliyah, after 31 years of wanting to. For me, this decision involved a little Zionism, a little meshugas [Yiddish for craziness - ed.] and a lot of medicine." | Meshugas and Medicine'
World-renowned diabetes expert Professor Derek LeRoith is tapped to lead a new clinical research center at Rambam Hospital.
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Chana Ya'ar , Oct 25 , 2010 6:12 PM | updated: 6:34 PM
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World-renowned diabetes expert Professor Derek LeRoith has been tapped to lead a new clinical research center at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The new Diabetes and Metabolism Clinical Research Center is part of Rambam's new Legacy Heritage Clinical Research Institute.
LeRoith, formerly of the National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. and New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, directed diabetes centers in both of his previous positions.
The new director said in a statement to the media that he intends to begin immediately with research investigating why patients with obesity and Type II diabetes show an increased susceptibility to all types of cancers, as well as an unusually high mortality rate in connection with the disease – an area he has studied for more than five years.
"My long-range plans are to recruit three or four other investigators in the diabetes arena," he said, "and to develop a center that will be internationally recognized in diabetes research."
Legacy Institute Director Professor Michael Aviram added that LeRoith's work will be focused specifically on its direct application to patient health.
"At Rambam [LeRoith] will coordinate diabetes research at the highest level," confirmed Aviram, "and like other Legacy researchers will combine clinical work with basic research. Each researcher here will work on projects that are relevant to patients and their treatment," he emphasized.
"Leading the Legacy center represents a new challenge for me, professionally and personally | 379 |
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Wuppertal | und Geschäftshaus Albrechtstraße 21 in Wuppertal ist als Baudenkmal am 14. April 1989 unter Schutz gestellt worden. Das Gebäude gilt als städtebaulich wichtiger Bestandteil der historischen Bebauung der Elberfelder Nordstadt, eines gründerzeitlichen Wohnviertels.
Das viergeschossige Wohnhaus mit Satteldach liegt im heutigen Stadtteil Elberfeld an der Kreuzung der Straßen Albrechtstraße und Friedrichstraße. Es stammt aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert und ist als Eckgebäude mit einem Zugang zur Albrechtstraße gebaut. Die gegliederte Fassade ist in historistischen Stilformen erstellt, die Ecke ist abgeschrägt.
Das Gebäude wurde als Wohn- und Geschäftshaus konzipiert, der Zugang zu dem Laden im Erdgeschoss erfolgt über die Eckabschrägung. Seit den 1930er-Jahren ist hier eine der ältesten (wenn nicht die älteste) Eisdiele von Wuppertal ansässig. Das "Eiscafé Spathmann", das nicht unter der Führung eines italienischen Inhabers steht, wurde auch von der Mundart-Band Striekspöen besungen. Gegründet wurde die Eisdiele von den Gebrüdern Willy und Arthur Spathmann.
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Change The Lens
Along with the cooler temperatures of fall comes new opportunities. My challenges around shifting perspectives, having been helped along by artists, projects, and friends, was underlined this week with two events: attending the opening of the new Nicolas Ruel show at Toronto's Thompson-Landry Gallery, in the city's historic Distillery District, on Thursday night, and going to the opening of Secrets of a Black Boy, at another historic location, Toronto's Danforth Music Hall, lastnight. Each experience afforded me some rich insight into the nature of perception, particularly as it relates to urban landscapes, and to those around us, and how we relate with them.
Ruel works in large-scale photographic works, printing his multi-layered urban landscapes onto smooth stainless steel. To quote the gallery's website, his most recent work, projet 8 secondes, "depicts urban civilizations captured by the photographer in sustained intervals of eight seconds." The cities of Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Paris and Sydney are all explored in images that are both dreamy and hard, ethereal and slick. It's somewhere in the middle -and the viewer has to find that middle -where the truth of Ruel's work lies.
This eight-second exposure pause is interesting to me because it collapses conventional notions around perception, time, and the relations we draw between each. Architecture becomes dance; streets become skies. Solidity is rendered extremely fluid, implying our fixed notions of time and space -and<|fim_middle|>, mental, emotional -to see the things that lie concealed in the most surprisingly shallow ways. Such a small shift allows us to view the world around us -ourselves, our relationship with others, including solid structures and forms -in a new, more fluid, all-encompassing way. If you think you're stuck in one spot, Ruel's work whispers in a silvery, high-timbred way, think again -step back, step over, turn right, turn left. Small shifts change everything, and underline the fluid, non-linear nature of existence.
I found myself particularly compelled by two works, one of which was shot in London, England, a favourite city I lived in a decade ago. I'm always fascinated by the ways in which artists choose to shoot such a vivid, varied place; each one seems to bring me back to Pepys' work as well as Johnson's famous statement about the British capital, adding miniscule bricks to his stance. Ruel's work is deceptively simple; it features a window, layerered with subtle shapes. But is that all? No, it looks like there could be the vast environs of a train station defining the piece, giving it scale and context. The piece, "Window," gives off a smoky, oblique sheen that uses empty space as a dramatic character. Is that smoke? or clouds? is this about terrorism? or daydreaming? or travel? the transitory nature of modern life? of art? of perception? is this simply about resting the brain and not thinking? Is that the right response? Having lived in the city, I had a personal reaction to it -and I think, perhaps, that might be the point. We each carry personal ideas and sometimes experiences around the cities Ruel depicts. He's asking us to step aside from those notions, however slightly, and look at things in a new way.
The second work I was drawn to, "Midnight Stand," was shot on a narrow, crowded street in Tokyo, and is impressive for its sheer size (it's at least six feet across, if not more, and almost as high). The piece has a bustling, busy energy, with the electric light glow of the street dancing against the ghostly top half of a man semi-super-imposed on top, his white-shirted arm floating amidst the cacophony of reds, blues, and greens. This is one of the more colourful pieces in the collection, in that Ruel has allowed a myriad of shades to infuse his work -unlike "Window," which uses deep blues and greys, its depiction like a paned, smoky-cemented bruise of modern life. The mammoth Tokyo work gave an impression of a city at once colliding with and embracing tradition -melding old and new ways. While this isn't a new idea about the Japanese capital, it was originally presented, with little shops and lights almost appearing as strips of celluloid, or comic panes; look from a different angle and... wow, there are people. Actual, real people, with actual real lives, trying to earn a living amidst the hustle and bustle. There was so much texture built up on the smooth piece of steel as to be awe-inspiring. Different levels of perception, reality, and experience collided, and I had to take a step back and go for a glass of Riesling and a deep breath. Fascinating, compelling, poetic -just some words I'd use to describe Ruel's work. You won't quite look at your own city the same way again.
I thought about this shift in perspective watching Darren Anthony's deeply affecting premier work, Secrets of a Black Boy, which opened lastnight at Toronto's sizeable Danforth Music Hall. Despise some venue drawbacks (the lobby is weensie and the raking is shallow, so if you're short and get stuck behind a giant... too bad), the show is solid, uplifting, moving, and not a little provocative. Anthony is the brother of theatre artist Trey Anthony, best known for her hit work Da Kink In My Hair. While Trey explored black female identity, first-time playwright Darren examines male black identity, particularly within the modern urban context of a rapidly-gentrifying downtown Toronto. Five young black men come together in a community hall that is soon to be torn down, and, over a game of dominoes, share their histories, anxieties, fears, and joys. The intimacies are delivered one-by-one in a series of monologues addressed to the audience, with other cast members occasionally joining in and acting out requisite parts. Issues like sex, parenting, gender relationships, homosexuality, friendship and gun violence are all touched on, some with more subtlety and grace than others. The lines about AIDS and condom usage came off a bit heavy-handed, but then, nothing about Secrets is especially subtle anyway. There's a vibrant mix of hip-hop, soul, old-school funk, and classic rap pumped out by a live DJ throughout the work, providing atmosphere, accent and emotional underpinning as needed. Wisely, some scenes are allowed to be silent (such as a monologue delivered by a domestic abuser, played and delivered by Anthony himself), and in others, it's the actors themselves who provide the noise -for instance, opening the second half with a Stomp-esque dance/clap routine and closing the show with a repeated, urgent plea: "We. Are. Here."
Secrets of a Black Boy is everything Canadian theatre should be in 2009; it's vibrant, zesty, thoughtful, involving, and deeply insightful. It's also chalk-full of talented (and um, gorgeous) people. The audience for the show's opening was equally fantastic; I've never seen such a young, eclectic, stylish, and involved group at an opening (and they weren't tiresome luvvies, either). This is the audience most Canadian theatres are, I think, frothing at the mouth to get. Yet it takes more than a DJ and some graffiti-esque design to bring them. Anthony and his team have worked at marketing the campaign across social media platforms and have integrated many aspects of their own experiences into the mix. I got the feeling Secrets isn't viewed strictly as Art, either (the "You are coming to the thee-uh-tah, we are doing something totally Art-full here, now act smart and say deep things"-hipster posturing that dents so many promising productions for me); rather, the show is Community itself, and that community is much, much wider and deeper than any stereotype of The Male Black Suspect. These are real men, with real problems and challenges, some of which I actually found myself relating to. The bit about absent fathers and the grief that causes throughout life rang particularly deep bells for me, a white woman living what is probably a pretty privileged existence. Funny how the intimate can become epic, and then intimate all over again.
Anthony's work is sincere, honest, and refreshingly unpretentious. It's also fun, and has a fantastic streak of interactivity running through it. As with Ruel's work, you won't look at your own city -or the people who make it up -the same way. We all have secrets -even cities have them, really - but it takes a shift in thinking and perception to see what they mean -and how they can change us and our choices -in the long run. Bravo Ruel, Bravo Anthony; you've made me change the lens and take the long way home.
Secrets of a Black Boy photos by Marc Lostracco.
projet 8 secondes works by Nicolas Ruel.
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Rundles: The Art of Nourishment | our place within each -are merely illusions, that there's no "fixed" at all, that, even with the hard shiny surface of stainless steel, a myriad of hidden illusions and layers lies just beneath the surface. It takes an adjustment in position -physical | 52 |
Mark Davey, Chief Executive of the Youth Adventure Trust, was delighted that the charity won the Community Group of the Year Award at the recent Wiltshire Life Awards 2015 hosted by BBC Wiltshire's Sue Davies.
The<|fim_middle|> celebrate the heroes in the communities who make a difference to local lives. The Award was shared with Joint Winners, Aldbourne Youth Council. | Youth Adventure Trust helps vulnerable young people from across Wiltshire, aged between 11 and 14, to fulfil their potential and make a positive contribution to society. Using the outdoor environment to increase their aspiration, self-esteem and resilience, the young people better equipped to overcome life challenges.
Mark Davey, Chief Executive of the Trust, said: "We are delighted to have been recognised for our work with Wiltshire's young people.
"Since the Youth Adventure Trust was founded in 1992 we have worked with over 3,600 young people, from a variety of backgrounds. Many are young carers, come from single parent families or have chaotic and unstable home lives. Growing up in such environments puts children at a severe disadvantage to their peers. We believe that outdoor adventures, with the emphasis on developing personal resilience, communication and team work, can play a vital part in helping these young people to achieve their potential in life.
The Youth Adventure Programme, which runs over three school years, is free of charge to the participants but costs the charity £3,000 per child. It relies on the support of the local community for both raising the funds needed to run the programme and practical help. A team of over 180 volunteers from across the county and from a variety of backgrounds who come together to act as positive role models and to share their expertise and passion for improving the lives of young people at risk in Wiltshire.
The Wiltshire Life Awards 2015 seek to shine a light on excellence in the county and | 320 |
Album | Little May – For the Company
by Joe Sweeting • 3 November 2015
Australia's alternative music scene is burgeoning currently. After the success of Antipodean wordsmith Courtney Barnett<|fim_middle|> a relationship in the best way possible. The Shine, as mentioned in the title, perhaps alludes to the dreams we, as people, can't control at night, when ex-lovers can return and cause havoc with our feelings. Perhaps this is the nature of the human psyche. One could apply a psycho-analytical slant to this track alone, and many will interpret it differently. What is apparent, from this record, is that Little May have got the potential to be a big force in years to come, and can easily follow in the footsteps of fellow atmospheric band, Daughter, who are achieving success across the globe.
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Video Premiere | The Frisbys – Give In To The Dark → | and her angular, spikey point of view songs, Little May arrive to the British shores with an album that could easily match the craftsmanship of Barnett's.
Opening with 'Cicadas', the three-piece introduce the record with four minutes of atmospheric 'oohs', punctuated by lead singer Hannah Field's fast-paced delivery. If the listener expects a record full of 'Cicadas', then by the second track, 'Sold', the atmospherics are replaced by a toe-tapping drum pattern, Field's voice overdubbed to match the harmonising with her bandmates.
The production on the 11 tracks that make up For the Company is expertly crafted; little wonder, as Aaron Dessner (he from The National) was behind the desk. His light touch can be felt all across the record, his love of orchestration most apparent on the brooding 'Bows and Arrows', Field's vocals dripping with the resignation of a lost love; "Don't act like this is our last touch…again."
'Seven Hours' carries a washed-out, peaceful vibe to it, Field's delivery languid, the guitars woozy in the background. It is easy to picture this being played late-night on stereos by the beach in sunny climates. The track comes to life around the 90 second mark, the drum beat driving forward, the night moving forward towards the break of day. As a piece of initially quiet instrumentation, the build up to the crescendo works well, and the band make it all seems so effortless; testament to their songwriting abilities.
'The Shine is Brighter at Night' opens with the chords of a keyboard, shortly joined by Field, who then sees her vocals joined by a simple percussion beat. Field's repetition; "Rest my eyes I don't want to see you/rest my brain, I don't wanna know…" perhaps sums up the end of | 386 |
Pompeo meets with N. Korea's Kim Yong Chol to talk summit plans
May 31, 2018 / 9:42 AM / CBS News
Pompeo, Kim Yong Chol meet in New York
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with North Korean Vice Chairman of the Central Committee Kim Yong Chol to discuss the prospect of reviving next month's summit. The leaders and their respective delegations met at a residence of the U.S. deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Thursday morning where they shook hands and sat at a table with their teams. Neither Kim or Pompeo answered shouted questions from reporters at the meeting.
The two arrived in New York on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the highly-anticipated talks between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. CBS News' Kylie Atwood reports that this was the third meeting between Kim and Pompeo but their first<|fim_middle|>31, 2018 / 8:45 AM | meeting on U.S. soil.
The two enjoyed dinner Wednesday night and are expected to have a a day full of meetings on Thursday, according to the White House. The secretary tweeted photos of the evening, calling it a "good working dinner" where they enjoyed steak, corn and cheese. Department of State Press Secretary Heather Nauert told reporters before Thursday's meeting that Pompeo had said that the meetings "were great last night but there is still a lot of work to be done." Nauert also told reporters that Pompeo spoke with President Trump last night and Bolton this morning to brief them on the dinner.
Good working dinner with Kim Yong Chol in New York tonight. Steak, corn, and cheese on the menu. pic.twitter.com/1pu4K3oym7
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) May 31, 2018
Pompeo previously told CBS' "Face the Nation" that North Korea could enjoy the benefits of American "know-how" and agricultural products should they fulfill their promises of complete and total denuclearization.
The secretary will brief reporters later Thursday afternoon on the progress of discussions with the top North Korean official.
First published on May | 247 |
Hospital leadership can play a critical role in improving safety and quality, as highlighted<|fim_middle|> activities compared to low-performing hospitals. However, the mechanisms by which hospital management can improve safety and quality remain undefined. This study, which used survey data from a large sample of hospitals in the United States and England, advances knowledge in this area by defining the key characteristics of management and boards at high-performing hospitals. The investigators found that compared to hospitals that scored poorly on quality metrics, high-performing hospital boards paid more attention to quality and explicitly used quality metrics to assess management performance. In addition, high-performing hospitals used more effective management practices, i.e., they consistently set quality targets and had a greater focus on hospital operations. Hospitals with high management scores were also more likely to be teaching institutions. As many hospital boards still do not prioritize patient safety, these results help identify management practices that could be implemented to help improve safety and quality at the hospital level. One health system's approach to leadership emphasis on quality and safety is discussed in a past AHRQ WebM&M perspective.
Keenan JE, Speicher PJ, Thacker JKM, Walter M, Kuchibhatla M, Mantyh CR. JAMA Surg. 2014;149:1045-1052. | in a 2009 Joint Commission sentinel event alert. A prior review found that the governance boards of high-performing hospitals had greater engagement in safety | 31 |
I am glad that you are asking your question because bedtime is one of my favorite topics, and I am sure many readers with young children will benefit from your question. If you follow this plan, your entire evening can be different.
First, make sure that you are often teaching your children about the important healthy habit of sleeping well. Tell them about your own bedtime. Tell them that people who sleep enough learn better, are in better moods, and have more energy. While people who are deprived of proper sleep do not learn as well, are moodier, and lack proper energy.
Next, let's realize that children of the ages you are describing need between 9 and 13 hours of sleep. This is what is recommended, but in all my years of working with and raising children I have yet to see a young child who really needs 13 hours of sleep. I've found that most children in your children's age bracket need more like 10-11 hours. With that being said, you have to calculate when it makes sense for them to wake up.
You must make sure that all of your children are awake early enough so that they will be nice and ready for the evening plan I will prescribe. If your children are awaking too late, of course they won't be tired enough to settle down so early in the evening.
Now for the evening plan, you will do the following at 7:30 for three nights, and then gradually move 15 minutes a night until you are doing this routine at 7:00.
Have a mini-meeting with all the children. Tell them that you will be giving five minutes of special time to each child at bedtime, and you are really looking forward to it (we always show excitement about spending time with our children). Tell them that at the end of the five minutes, some ungrateful children ask for more, but the healthy thing to do is say, "Thank you, Mommy." (we don't ask children to say thank you because we need the gratitude, but rather because it teaches children how to be grateful, and happy). If they ask you what they should do if they can't fall asleep tell them that they have no control over that and only Hashem decides when people fall asleep. Their responsible effort is to do two things: keep their head on the pillow and their mouth closed, and Hashem does the rest.
At 7:00, the youngest child gets five minutes of Mommy time alone in his or her room, on the bed with lights shut. This is very relaxing time when you are not teaching advising, questioning, or prodding. Just listen to everything your child wants to say without any judgment, and smile. At the end of the five minutes, tell the child that you are looking forward to seeing him/her in the morning and remind the child that he may not come out of his bed for anything. If he needs the bathroom he may go quickly without telling you.
Then go and do the same routine with the next youngest child and remember to praise the first child from the hallway, for responsibly keeping his or her head on the pillow and having a quiet mouth.
Then do the same for the oldest. Keep praising each one individually from the hallway, until everyone is calm. After several days you will be able to move away from the hallway, and go to kitchen or to the living room, as your children can work on staying calm and quiet more independently.
In addition, you can make an incentive chart where children earn points for staying in<|fim_middle|> is a Parenting Coach, Behavioral Therapist, and Principal at Orot Sarah. She gives live workshops as well as "train by phone" telecourses to teachers, principals, therapists, and parents. She can be contacted through her website at tammysassoon.com or by phone at (347) 679-5466. | bed, towards earning a small reward.
I hope that with the implementation of these strategies your children will sleep very well.
I have 3 children between the ages of 4 and 8, and I need some very serious help with bedtime. Overall, I have a nice relationship with my kids, and they basically listen to me. Somehow, every night bedtime is just a disaster. I start putting everyone in at 7:00, and at 9:00, everyone is still needing things. By that point, I usually completely lose it, scream at everyone, and then they finally settle down. I need my nights, and I am very desperate for advice.
editor@communitym.com.Tammy will suggest new and effective parenting strategies that actually work!
Tammy Sassoon, M.S.Ed, | 165 |
Hosted by Valley City's Chamber of Commerce, the 30th Annual North Dakota State Pinochle Tournament has grown extremely popular with citizens of Valley City and the surrounding area and will again take place at the Eagles Club on the 16th and 17th of February, starting at 8 a.m.
The game of pinochle was brought to America in the World War I era by German immigrants. Some say that the name came from the French word binocle (eyeglasses in English) and was misspelled when it came to America, becoming Pinochle. It requires at least two players, two 24 card pinochle decks, and a score sheet. The game can be played with up to four players or two player teams. Twelve cards will be dealt face down to each player, with the rest of the cards remaining in the deck.
In terms of value for the cards, aces are high, then tens, kings, queens, and jacks. The nines have no value. Players will arrange their hands with three or more cards of one suit in a sequence or three or more cards in the same ranks or different suits. The placed card values and tricks determine the winner at the end of the game.
Valley City Chamber Event Coordinator, Mikayla Gustafson, has kept hard at work with the event and all of its prizes.
"There is a 70 percent cash payout for the top 15 winners," Gustafson said. "There is a consolation prize for the first three places. The top 50 teams will play in the championship round on Sunday. If you are under the top 50 then you can play the consolation round<|fim_middle|> sign up, with two-person teams of $25 per person. Entry forms can be signed at the Chamber of Commerce or online, for which they can pay online as well. For more information, call Valley City's Chamber of Commerce office at (701) 845-1891. | ."
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October 1, 2010 | Electronics & Computers
Graphene-Based Reversible Nano-Switch/ Sensor Schottky Diode
This device can extend applications of nanoelect<|fim_middle|>77-1. | ronics to embedded bio-medical devices and explosive-detection devices.
John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
This proof-of-concept device consists of a thin film of graphene deposited on an electrodized doped silicon wafer. The graphene film acts as a conductive path between a gold electrode deposited on top of a silicon dioxide layer and the reversible side of the silicon wafer, so as to form a Schottky diode. By virtue of the two-dimensional nature of graphene, this device has extreme sensitivity to different gaseous species, thereby serving as a building block for a volatile species sensor, with the attribute of having reversibility properties. That is, the sensor cycles between active and passive sensing states in response to the presence or absence of the gaseous species.
In addition, because of the sensitivity and diode properties, the device can be used as a switch where its operational stages (i.e., open/closed, on/off) could be controlled by a given gaseous species. Consequently, this proof-of-concept has great potential as a building block for implementation of a switch/sensor device for harsh, embedded, or enclosed environments (e.g., the human body, space-based habitats, airplanes, subways, etc.) where the longevity and reusability of the circuit are critical for reliable operation.
The sensing performance of this device has been experimentally tested in an ambient atmosphere, as well as under an ammonia gas (NH3) atmosphere. The experimental data demonstrate the dual switching/sensing nature of the nano Schottky diode, hence, the acronym nanoSSSD. Accordingly, the reversible behavior makes the diode suitable for nano-sensing devices intended for applications where access to the sensor, and its potential replacement opportunities, are limited.
The graphene-based nanoSSSD consists of an n-doped or p-doped silicon substrate with a 200-nm thermally grown layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2). The responsiveness of the diode will depend on the substrate doping type. The oxide layer is in turn electrodized with metallic conductors (e.g., gold) upon which a nanolayer of graphene is deposited so as to wrap around the edge of the electrode to establish a conductive path with the silicon substrate, thereby forming the Schottky diode. The performance of the diode is activated by applying DC voltage between the top metal electrode and the silicon substrate.
Upon exposing the nanoSSSD to a volatile species environment, the diode response is unambiguously different from that manifested under normal ambient conditions. More relevant yet, the behavior is reversible with the performance of the diode returning to its normal operational mode as the volatile species is removed. This feature forms the basis for the functional operation of the device resulting in a reliable, long MTBF (mean time between failure) nano-switch/sensor, ideal for applications where frequent replacement of the device is not a viable option.
This work was done by Félix A. Miranda, Michael A. Meador, and Onoufrios Theofylaktos of Glenn Research Center; Nicholas J. Pinto of the University of Puerto Rico; Carl H. Mueller of Qinetiq North America (Analex Corporation); and Javier Santos-Pérez of Ohio Aerospace Institute. For more information, download the Technical Support Package (free white paper) at www.techbriefs.com/tsp under the Electronics/Computers category.
Inquiries concerning rights for the commercial use of this invention should be addressed to NASA Glenn Research Center, Innovative Partnerships Office, Attn: Steve Fedor, Mail Stop 4–8, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44135. Refer to LEW-184 | 764 |
Where Do I Start if I Want to Sell My Franchise or Buy an Existing Fr<|fim_middle|> sellers knows exactly what the expectations and risk are for them. And our goal is to do it efficiently because we know that out-of-control legal bills can kill a deal.
Call us today at 215-525-1165 for a free initial consultation. | anchise?
If you have made the decision that now is the time to exit a franchise, you need to accomplish three critical things before placing your business on the market. If you are interested in buying an existing franchise, it's also important to understand these three factors because it can affect how you move forward.
First, you should discuss with your franchisor what your plans are. All franchise relationships eventually come to an end. You are probably not the first and won't be the last franchisee to exit the system. You have used the franchise system, brand, and people to build your business. Don't be afraid to use them to exit. They have a critical interest in a successful transition. Use them to help you close the deal. If you have a specific reason why you think telling the franchisor will compromise your exit, then you should discuss that with your franchise attorney. If you don't have an attorney that you are comfortable working with, please give us a call for a free initial consultation at 215-525-1165.
Second, you need to gather documentation and clean up any inconsistencies, errors or omissions in your paperwork. The list is extensive and you can never have too much documentation. Buyers will take lack of documentation or documentation they have to fight to get as a sign of trouble and it will break down the trust between you. Not only will it potentially affect your value, it will cause unnecessary delays.
In a small business transaction, the trust between the buyer and seller is critical. Without trust, the deal will not happen. The way you can build trust is by having all the documents readily available for any buyer who is serious about making an offer. You need to tell a story to the buyer, and that story has to be validated by documentation.
Finally, you should see what, if any, financing will be available for a buyer. This should be done before you even list your business for sale. Talk to your business broker, attorney, accountant or franchisor to get some recommendations on financing sources to pre-qualify your business. Not only will this make it easier to sell the business, but it will also be a great reality check on your price. If the price can't support financing, then maybe you shouldn't sell until the business grows into the price you want.
Buyers of small businesses always have to make a leap of faith, similar to the leap you made when you got into the business. You need to convince the buyer why this transaction makes sense. If you are really ready to sell, have prepared a well-organized and thorough package, and have pre-qualified your business for financing, you will have a better chance of selling your business on your own terms.
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We are frequently asked for information on how to make room sprays. The essential ingredient, apart from Fragrance or Essential Oil is Polysorbate or Solubliser. Roomsprays are quite fun to make, very easy and of course they make your house smell lovely.
You need the Polysorbate or CCG because you need to disperse (solublise) the Essential Oils and/or Fragrance into water. If you are going to keep this for any length of time do include 0.3% Liquid Germall Plus.
Regarding the amounts of Polysorbate, the rule of thumb is to use a 1:1 ratio. So, if you are using 5% fragrance, as I am, I need 5% solubliser. Some individual Fragrances or Essential Oils<|fim_middle|> blends.
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It's been a while now since I wrote a post from the heart. As much as I love writing about skincare and the next new lipstick I'm loving, sometimes you have to go ahead and write something that comes from within. Something that's good for the soul, you know?
I actually wrote this post over a year ago and stored it away privately debating whether to hit the publish button or not. But today, I decided to click that little button and share my story with you.
For a while I'd felt out of sorts. I was constantly exhausted,<|fim_middle|> I've learned to embrace the fear. Look that fear in the eye and hit it head on because once you step outside your comfort zone, amazing things happen. They happened for me and they can happen for you too.
'Have courage and be kind' always. | had anxiety and felt very uncertain about what the future held. I think those feelings are probably normal for the self-employed (and anybody else) from time to time. After all, it's a constant worry about keeping the ball going and making sure that the plates don't go clattering to the ground. It's a constant battle to stay relevant, work hard and still maintain a work/life balance (whatever the heck that is).
To look at my social media back then, you'd never have known that things were less than perfect. And that's kind of my point. The thing is, it's not always easy to tell when somebody is feeling low or struggling with their load. After all, our social media channels have fast become the place to showcase our best moments that we want to remember. Not the not-so-great moments that we'd rather pass right on by. It's become commonplace for friends to take a quick look over Instagram, see smiling, happy faces looking back and them and presume their friends are doing well and feeling good. The need to ask somebody how they are and what they've been up to has been lost thanks to the increase in social media. I'm sure many of you are just like me: I save those not-so-great moments in life to share with close friends and family that can talk me through and help me see my worries from a new perspective. As my dad says, there are no problems, just solutions. It's a good way of looking at that roadblock in your way.
Secretly, I think most people tend to suffer from anxiety from time to time. Maybe even daily. But from the safety of behind closed doors. There's a horrible stigma attached to anxiety and it's something that needs to change. It's something a lot of people don't understand or know how to deal with when people around them are going through it. It can seem trivial to some, but it can be absolutely life-shattering for those going through it.
You'd never know that just visiting the supermarket at times in the past made my legs feel weak, my heart pound like it was going to break out of my chest and my voice shake with fear. Lord, I think we all feel a bit of anxiety when the cashier at Lidl is throwing our food down the checkout at the speed of light. Admittedly, it didn't happen every time. Sometimes I was the most confident version of myself possible. But some days, the anxiety could feel crippling. It's a strange little thing, anxiety. I teach groups of young ladies in schools all about makeup, I teach grown women about confidence, and I meet and make over numerous clients where 'the fear' doesn't even come into it. Sure, I get nervous about speaking to large groups at times (who wouldn't!), but nothing close to an anxiety attack. Nothing like those all encompassing feelings that make you feel like you might just hit the floor.
On the day of writing this very post I was sat in my local Starbucks. My heart was pounding, my anxiety was soaring and that horrible sickly feeling was bubbling over inside me at the thought of being one of 'those' people sat in a coffee shop working away on my laptop. You know the type, those "wi-fi hoggers" taking up the best seats and making one coffee last an hour. But why did I feel like that? I couldn't tell you. It was like I'd become so consumed and worried about what people were thinking of me that I'd worked myself up into a frenzy. But do you know what? Not one person in that coffee shop gave a damn about what I was doing because they were all too busy doing their own thing. It was full of mums with their children enjoying babyccinos, business people tapping away on laptops or phones, and people sat reading their books and enjoying their flat whites. Nobody cared what I was doing, nobody was paying attention. I suddenly felt a little less flustered.
One evening I had a panic attack out of the blue. I suddenly felt a crushing in my chest and throat and felt like I couldn't breathe. I stumbled across a man on YouTube talking about coping techniques as I frantically searched for a calming video. What he said really struck me and knocked me for six, yet it wasn't anything prolific whatsoever. He simply said 'panic is something that's built to protect you. It cannot hurt you.' Hearing this instantly calmed me a little. 'It can't hurt me?' I thought. 'So if it can't hurt me, what am I so afraid of? Just roll with the feeling and breathe it out.' And that I did. I was surprised how quickly I felt soothed. It didn't cure it, but my goodness it eased that chest crushing feeling and breathless panic significantly. I took to drawing to distract me and soon found the calmness seeping over me in my world of monochrome pencil strokes.
The reason I wrote this post is mainly because of an experience that I'd had. I was feeling anxious, upset about things that were going on in my personal life and was really not feeling all too well either. After a rough night the evening before with several bouts of sleep paralysis (something very common in people who suffer from a lot of stress or anxiety), I decided to head out for a drive. I pulled into my local Starbucks drive through to get a chai tea latte with the weight of the world on my shoulders and my hands shaking (I promise I do a lot more in my days than visit coffee houses but I like to treat myself now and then!) and suddenly I met the Baristas' eyes through the window. She gave me the biggest, most heartwarming smile – the kindest smile I'd seen in a long time. It sounds silly, but it was one of those smiles that are truly genuine. Something strange happened – in an instant, my stomach muscles relaxed, my heart felt lighter and a huge smile spread across my face mirroring her. She passed me my cup with a flourish which also held a huge smiley face drawn on in black ink. In that instant I knew that I was going to be just fine. I was doing okay. The world wasn't such a scary, mean place after all and there was a lot to smile about.
The point I'm trying to make is that, for somebody with anxiety, or even just anybody at all, a little kindness goes a long way in a somewhat sometimes lonely world. Ask somebody how they are doing, smile at a stranger and spread a little kindness and love. It can make a huge difference to somebody and have such a positive impact.
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By Justin Isherwood, Peninsula Pulse – July 2<|fim_middle|>na Jauregui @ The Summer Kitchen | 4th, 2013
Illustration by Ryan Miller.
A vintage black and white photograph hangs in our dining room, the image of the house where my father was born, 1908, Town of Plover. The site is barren compared to its current condition, then a treeless plain except for a background of stumps. Despite the farm had already been active for fifty years, the stumps of the Pinery were still evident. The thing about burning out stumps is that once charred they become immortal. Moss, lichen, fungi won't earnestly grow on a fired stump, even ants find them inhospitable. Once charred these stumps continued to reside like craterless meteorites, haunting the landscape, taunting the field. Eventually their roots did yield their grip and they were towed or rolled to the hedgerow, there to hiss and catcall another generation.
It was a log house like others in the neighborhood, at the time a prosperous dwelling, a two-story hand-hewn, notched in a pattern known as half dovetail, when well done a deliberate show of craft. Plover Town in the period after the Civil War was a better than average farming community. In field vernacular known as a well-drained soil, more sand than clay. A quickly warming soil available to cultivate and plant in May even April: wheat, oats, rye, clover, of course potatoes. Twenty thousand acres of that tuberosum by the turn of the century, when every farm-raised potato was for sustenance and cash money. Three acres, five acres, maybe even ten or twenty, rarely more, horse-drawn diggers, hand-picked potatoes. In combination with a milk cow and a patch of potatoes mankind had gained the most sustainable dietary regime in history and the most readily available. New potatoes by early July, some weeks before wheat and rye, an acre of potatoes produced five times the dry weight of wheat or rye. If the Roman Empire and Egypt had lived by wheat, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Holland, Germany, Poland, Russia lived by potatoes.
Hot summers in the log house were without decoration…insufferable. Our grandmother proudly owned one of those cast iron marvels that performed all manner of cooking: boil water, fry bacon, make toast, bake bread, thaw mittens, tend a calf. If any time from July until September that same marvelous Monarch could turn the house to a Hades, or a Venus if you prefer.
Long hot summers were the cause for that familiar substructure added to houses known as the summer kitchen. An inelegant lean-to contrived of raw pine boards and 2 x 4s, only to add a tarpaper roof and the result was the most advanced kitchen aid available in 1908. Sometime in April or May the kitchen range was relocated with the help of neighbors from the kitchen proper to its summer pose in that lean-to. Moving the stove was a round-robin chore so routine it ought have gained reference on the church calendar the same as Epiphany and Christmas. With the chore completed the house was rendered habitable for the next three months, sometime in early October the same round of housekeeping took place and the menfolk made the circuit, house to house reinstalling the cast iron monstrosity to the house proper.
What brought the subject of the summer kitchen to mind was my wife's comment that she hadn't cooked a meal indoors during the week of a recent heat wave. Our eating pattern had changed over to the summer kitchen, in our case the grill in the front yard. Grilled zucchini, grilled potatoes, sweet corn, new potatoes parboiled then smacked with a hammer and teased with a hot wok. Such is our dependence on olive oil I've wondered if a breeding program might work for a Wisconsin-tolerant variety, to think I'd like an olive grove.
It seems the summer kitchen still attends our summer habits. To witness that outsize evolution of what started out modestly in the American backyard as a charcoal grill not much bigger than a hub cap that stood on the same shaky legs as a newborn calf. As summer temperatures soar across the continent, Americans resort to the summer kitchen. An alternative made easier because "the stove" isn't cast iron and comes with wheels.
My grandmother Fletcher went one better for her summer kitchen, she had her Eugene site a spare Monarch or maybe it was a Sears Comfort Heat under the shade of a generous elm tree. There she canned apples, canned beef tongue, canned spring fryers, canned beets, tomatoes, summer squash. A hundred dozen, cherries, grapes, rhubarb, elderberries, the list itself insufferable to yet remember; cauliflower, and that mystical healing soup or chicken legs. The cellar of my grandmother's house was ten feet deep, part for the keep of potatoes, the rest of that dark hole devoted to canning shelves floor to ceiling equipped with a ladder. Not bad for an elm tree summer kitchen.
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Musk tells staff Twitter should allow…
Musk tells staff Twitter should allow 'pretty outrageous' content
Twitter needs to allow more space for people to say whatever they want, Musk said, as long as it doesn't violate the law.
Elon Musk met with Twitter employees Thursday, June 16,<|fim_middle|> is, but obviously people do need to listen to me."
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PUBLISHED: June 16, 2022 at 11:12 a.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2022 at 11:19 a.m.
By Kurt Wagner, Ed Ludlow and Maxwell Adler | Bloomberg
Elon Musk discussed his stance on what types of content should be allowed on Twitter's social network, saying that people should be allowed to say "pretty outrageous things" but that the platform doesn't have to give those posts reach.
Musk elaborated on his beliefs Thursday during an all-hands gathering at Twitter, according to staff who participated in the virtual meeting. It marked the first time the billionaire, who is chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., has addressed Twitter employees since agreeing in late April to buy the company for $44 billion.
Twitter needs to allow more space for people to say whatever they want, Musk said, as long as it doesn't violate the law. But he added that the company needs to balance that by making sure people "feel comfortable" on the service, otherwise they won't use it, according to people familiar with the discussion.
His goal, he said, is to expand Twitter's user base to 1 billion users. The company had about 229 million daily active users as of March.
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Employees who attended the meeting said Musk — who attended the video call wearing a white button-down shirt and appeared to be joining from his phone — also talked about possible product changes, including the idea that users should have to pay to be verified as a real human user, through a tool like subscription service Twitter Blue.
He also proposed that Twitter use verification as a way of ranking content on the platform. His goal is to "maximize usefulness of the service," Musk said.
When asked about potential layoffs, Musk didn't dismiss the idea, saying that Twitter "needs to get healthy."
"Anyone who is a significant contributor should have nothing to worry about," he added.
Twitter started allowing full-time remote work more than two years ago, and Musk was asked multiple questions at the meeting about the staff's future ability to keep working from home. Musk said that the priority would be for people to work together in person, but if someone is "exceptional at their job" then it's possible for those people to continue working remotely.
Many employees posted in an internal Slack channel as the conversation unfolded, and Musk's comments about remote work being reserved for "exceptional" workers prompted a number of heated replies, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Musk wasn't directly asked and didn't address the question of whether he is committed to buying Twitter. He has created concern over recent weeks that he was no longer interested in acquiring Twitter, or might want to lower the per-share price. First he said he wanted to put the deal "on hold" while he investigated the number of bots on the service, and later he sent a formal letter to Twitter executives saying he might walk away from the deal if the company didn't do more to prove the size of its user base.
The Tesla CEO, who is also the world's richest person, has publicly criticized Twitter's products, executives and policies since striking the deal agreement, frustrating some employees who are concerned that he doesn't understand the complexities of running a large social networking company.
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Musk reiterated that he's not against advertising as a model, noting that it's very important to Twitter's business, but that ads and subscriptions are both key to boosting revenue. He said ads should be entertaining, and he doesn't want to let businesses advertise "bad products."
He told a story about how he recently bought a "scammy product" from a YouTube ad and it didn't work as advertised. "That's totally not cool," Musk told employees.
Musk was also asked if he plans to take the CEO role at Twitter. He didn't give a clear answer, saying he's not hung up on titles, but does want to "drive the product in a particular direction."
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San Diego County Gets Area's First Net-Zero Library
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KEYWORDS C.W. Driver / Ferguson Pape<|fim_middle|>Parlane & Associates, as the HVAC and plumbing engineer; ELEN Consulting, as the electrical engineer; Snipes-Dye, as the civil engineer; VanDyke Landscape Architects, as the landscape architect; ICS, as the plumbing and HVAC contractor; and Rowan Electric, as the electrical contractor. | Baldwin Architects / Net Zero
You can step inside the new $10 million Alpine Library in San Diego County and check out a book on sustainability, or you can walk around the building itself, study its design and learn firsthand what it takes to be Net-Zero.
"Architecturally speaking, the east and west [library] facades integrate monumental, tapered, vertical concrete shade fins, densely spaced to optimally mitigate glare and solar exposure," says Architect Amanda Schultz, senior associate at San Diego-based Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA), who designed the project along with Manuel Oncina Architects of La Jolla, CA. She says sustainable features such as this help reduce the amount of energy to cool the space, "while preserving views out and offering excellent reading environments for users."
Thanks to eco-friendly features, the 12,900-sq-ft design-build library is targeting LEED Gold and will be the area's first Net-Zero library, as it will generate as much or more power than it consumes.
To help reach Net-Zero, the project will also utilize a solar panel system spanning its elongated roof, with panels angled south to take advantage of prevailing sun rays. The solar system is expected to produce about 108,500 kWh per year. The library's windows also take the sun in consideration, as the majority of them are located on the north-facing side, which gets less rays.
Other energy-saving features include extensive natural light and sensor-controlled LED fixtures; automatic electrical outlets that shut-off when nearby areas are not being used; and a next-generation energy system that cools and heats precise locations only when needed.
Matt Christensen with Pasadena, CA-based C.W. Driver, the project's contractor, says combining the sustainable materials into the building process was an interesting challenge.
"With zero-net energy there is a lot of focus on the envelop (of the building) and a lot of new rigid insulation to coordinate with the finishes and that was pretty difficult," says Christensen, the project manager. "With the addition of the insulation that made our wall thickness greater and the allowable distance for attaching the fiber cement board was then exceeded, so we had to come up with different attachment methods and backing, and it was a curve ball in the middle of the project."
The library's exterior is covered in elegant layers of stone veneer, plaster, and fiber cement board, "and all of it takes zero to minimal maintenance for the county," says Christensen.
Schultz says studying the building there are two relatively new technologies worth noting. First, domestic hot water is supplied by a 40-gallon, solar hot water heating system that uses no electricity to operate. Second, demand control ventilation monitors outside air to maintain CO2 levels in the building. Ventilation is provided by a dedicated outside air supply fan with a variable speed motor.
"The outside air supply fan is controlled by carbon dioxide sensors (CO2 sensors) that measure the carbon dioxide within each space and modulate the quantity of outside air to maintain a healthy environment," says Schultz. "The reduction of outside air when a space is not fully occupied has a significant impact on the total energy consumption of the building annually."
She says a building pressure relief fan with a variable speed drive, controlled by a building pressure sensor, removes air from the building to ensure proper outdoor air exchange.
The project, which opened this week, is the third design-build library in San Diego County for C.W. Driver. The other two are Fallbrook Library and Ramona Library.
Other project consultants include Manuel Oncina Architects; Hope-Amundson Engineering, as the structural engineer; Mc | 737 |
Carlos Miguel Prieto is considered the leading Mexican conductor of his generation. A highly respected cultural leader, Prieto is Musical America's 2019 Conductor of the Year. He possesses a wide-ranging repertoire, has led over 100 world premieres, and is a champion of American and Latin American composers. Prieto serves as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México and Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico, and Music Director of the Orchestra of the Americas. Prieto is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Carlos Miguel Prieto Featured in The Economist - January 2, 2020
MOST OF CARLOS MIGUEL PRIETO'S classmates from Princeton and Harvard Business School have built typical business careers. After applying or being headhunted for a job, they undergo a recruitment process lasting weeks or perhaps months. If successful, they do the role for a few years before moving on elsewhere and starting again: a recent study by Korn Ferry, a consultancy, found that even top executives have brief tenures, with CEOs remaining in place for an average of eight years. Mr Prieto, by contrast, has stuck with a number of his jobs for more than a decade each; he is currently considering what position he might like in three or four years' time. Mr<|fim_middle|>eto is an orchestral conductor, a profession so rarefied that most major appointments require a lengthy and careful courting process. Moves are planned many years in advance.
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Broad Latin America ETF Investing 101 (FLN, EEML, ILF, GML, LATM)
Eric Dutram: Exchange traded funds are a great way to tap into the economy of any part of the world. Easily, this approach offers up a far more diversified way to target stocks in a particular nation, especially in emerging markets.
In particular, one region which always seems to be of interest is Latin America. This area seems appropriate for those who have a relatively long time horizon and an above-average risk appetite (Forget Argentina, Buy These Latin America ETFs Instead).
This has been especially true as of late as Latin America has been a center of attraction for many investors attributable to the growing economies of most countries in the area, along with a bright outlook. According to a report from Morningstar, the IMF's economic outlook for Latin America stands at 3.7% in 2012 and 4.1% in 2013. So, the economy of Latin America is poised for positive growth going forward.
Countries within Latin America like Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru are also rich in commodities and have experienced outstanding growth over the past few years (Peru ETF Investing 101). These countries are expected to continue its economic expansion provided no extraordinary situation arises like a sudden fall in commodity prices. European debt woes and slower growth in China may have an impact on the region's export as these Latin American countries are major exporters of commodities.
However, the recent Q3 announcement by the Fed had a positive impact on commodities. These natural resources, which before the QE announcement were either volatile or down, rallied on the announcement, suggesting a favorable climate for a commodity driven region like Latin America.
Another reason which can be cited for economic expansion in Latin America is the growing consumer market. Latin America has experienced a huge increase in middle class numbers as more than 50 million more middle class households were added to the ranks in 2011 alone (Top Commodity ETFs In This Uncertain Market).
Thus, investors who are seeking other choices in emerging market ETFs, apart from China or India, have the emerging market of Latin America as a great option for ETF investing (Is ARGT A Better Latin America ETF Pick?). For investors seeking to play this trend in ETF form, the following series of Latin America ETFs could make for interesting picks:
First Trust Latin America AlphaDEX Fund (NYSEARCA:FLN)
Launched in April 2011, First Trust Brazil AlphaDEX Fund (FLN) is a passively managed ETF designed to track the performance of the Defined Latin America Index, a benchmark dominated by the stocks selected on the basis of the<|fim_middle|> spots. The fund charges a fee of 59 basis points annually.
Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:LATM)
Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap ETF provides exposure to the small cap equities of the emerging market of Latin America and tracks the Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index. The fund holds a total of 153 small cap stocks and has a total asset base of $13.8 million of which 20.7% is invested in the top 10 holdings.
So, the fund appears to be diversified with assets not just concentrated in the top 10 but instead spread among other companies beyond the list of top 10. Among the different sectors, Materials and Consumer Discretionary occupy the top two positions with 50.4% of investment made in these two categories (Time for the Latin America Small Cap ETF?).
Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap ETF charges a fee of 63 basis points for the investment. Small cap companies are more volatile than their large cap counterparts and may prove to be weaker than large cap companies at times of global crisis.
Among country exposure, Brazil enjoys the maximum allocation with Mexico and Chile also getting double-digit allocations in the fund.
ETF Focus Exp. Ratio Total Assets No. of Holdings % In Top 10
FLN Large Cap 0.81% $6.4 million 48 38.4%
EEML Large Cap 0.49% $4.9 million 134 41.3%
ILF Large Cap 0.50% $1.60 billion 41 62.7%
GML Large Cap 0.59% $114.8 million 135 38.8%
LATM Small Cap 0.63% $13.8 Million 153 20.7%
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The AlphaDEX methodology for selecting stocks uses both growth and value factors for determination of the stocks to be included in the fund. In this way, investors get a blend of the top rated growth and value stocks in one fund. 48 stocks from Latin America comprise the FLN holding list with a total asset base of $6.4 million.
The fund appears to be pretty spread out as it invests 38.4% of its asset base in the top 10 holdings, which signifies that concentration risk is low in the fund. Among sectors, Consumer Staples, Materials, Industrials, Financials and Utilities enjoy double-digit allocation while weightings in Information Technology and Energy are light.
Among the Latin America emerging markets, Brazil enjoys the maximum allocation in its fund (Forget the BRIC ETFs, Focus on the PICKs). The fund has allocated 70.1% to Brazil followed by Mexico, the second largest economy of Latin America, which has been granted 15.6% of assets.
Among the rest only Chile gets double-digit allocation. The fund charges a hefty fee of 81 basis points which falls on the higher side of the category average.
MSCI Emerging Markets Latin America Index Fund (NYSEARCA:EEML)
The MSCI Emerging Markets Latin America Index Fund is the new entrant on the list of Latin America ETFs. The ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the emerging market of Latin America, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Latin America Index.
Since it is a newly launched ETF, the fund has been able to amass an asset base of just $4.9 million which it seeks to invest in a large basket of 124 stocks. This asset base is mostly invested in the large cap securities of the emerging market of Latin America while the style favors growth stocks to value stocks (Emerging Market Small Cap ETFs: Freefall Continues).
The fund invests 41.3% of its asset in the top 10 holdings which suggest that the fund is moderately concentrated in the large cap equities. Additionally, Brazil occupies the top position in the fund country exposure, so the ETF relies heavily on Brazil to set the pace of the product.
Among the sectors that the fund is most concentrated in, Financials and Materials hold the lion's share making up 41% of the total investment. For the investment made in the ETF, the investor pays an expense ratio of 49 basis points which is on the lower side of the category average.
S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund (NYSEARCA:ILF)
S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund is one of the oldest and the most popular ETFs, which gives exposure to the emerging market economy of Latin America. The ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the Mexican and South American equity markets as represented by the Standard & Poor's Latin America 40 Index.
The product appears to be liquid as approximately 400,000 shares change hands on a daily basis and provides exposure mostly to the large cap stocks. The fund invests its $1,636.6 million of net assets in 41 stocks.
The fund appears to be highly concentrated in the large cap equities as the allocation to the top 10 holdings stands at 62.7%. Among country exposure, the fund has a tilt towards Brazilian securities, investing more than 50% of asset base while Mexico takes the second position with asset allocation of 27.7%.
Among the sectors that the fund is most concentrated in, Financials, Materials, Consumer Staples, Telecommunication and Energy enjoy double-digit allocation. For the investment made in the ETF, the investor pays an expense ratio of 50 basis points.
SPDR S&P Emerging Latin America ETF (NYSEARCA:GML)
The SPDR S&P Emerging Latin America ETF seeks investment results that generally correspond to the performance of the S&P Latin America BMI Index.
GML provides broader exposure to the emerging market of Latin America securities and holds a total of 135 stocks. GML has a total asset base of $114.8 million of which 38.8% is invested in the top 10 holdings suggesting that the fund has moderate concentration in the top stocks (Go Local With Emerging Market Bond ETFs).
Among sectors, a maximum of 20.9% is invested in Financials, 19.9% in Materials, and 17.1% in Energy while the fund is light on Health Care with just 0.16% of investment made in the sector. For the country allocation, the two largest economies of Latin America, Brazil and Mexico, get the top two | 1,041 |
I'm pleased to welcome PRmoment's Young Communicator of the Year, and data and research guru at Ketchum, Erin Salisbury.
I wanted to interview Erin because I think we all pretty much get the need to increase the extent to which PR firms use data but Erin is at the frontline<|fim_middle|>?
Where is the spectrum of personalised and non personalised data, from a practical and ethical perspective?
On the basis that virtually all campaigns are integrated, what are the implications of this from a measurement perspective?
How do you integrate data across paid, earned, shared and owned channels?
Is a channel specific attribution approach falsely simplified?
What approach to tool integration does Ketchum take? Do you choose specialist ones or do you try and use one tool that does lots of things?
What's the future of data on PR? Are we moving towards econometrics? Does PR have anything to fear when it comes to identifying its contribution? | of this and I wanted to get her real world insight - from the client perspective, a colleague perspective and from a data and insight tools perspective.
As a research and analytics manager in a PR firm how are you using data?
Can PR firms do their jobs effectively if clients don't give them access to their customer data trends?
How has the increased amount of data available to PR and marketing professionals impacted on planning and evaluation | 83 |
Symbolism, art and architecture - discover how symbolism represents culture and identity, and explore how our heritage is remembered through art and architecture.
Discover how symbolism represents culture and identity, and explore how our heritage is remembered through art and architecture.
Social Sciences - Social studies, History.
Small teams of<|fim_middle|>3-6 students per team. | students search for specific features both inside and outside the building using close-up photographs. Once found students will locate a fact sheet hidden nearby, containing information, questions for the team to answer, and space to record their own questions about the feature, before moving on to continue the search.
To encourage exploration of Old St Paul's and introduce some of its stories.
To introduce the concept of symbolism in architecture, design and religion, and how this is represented at Old St Paul's.
Group size: | 99 |
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Visit the Friends of Algonquin web site.
It is a vast rugged landscape with thousands of lakes surrounded by glacier-scarred rocky hills, basically unchanged since the area was captured by the famous Group of Seven artists almost a century ago. The only way to really explore the interior of this park is by canoe or on foot.
The park has limited highway access along the 56-kilometre stretch of Highway 60 though the park, you can access eight campgrounds 14 trails and visit Algonquin's superlative Visitor Centre and the Logging Museum.
Highway #60 runs through the south end of Algonquin Park. The East Gate is located just west of the town of Whitney. The West Gate is located just east of the town of Dwight. There are many other access points to the park that run off highway #17 (The Transportation-Canada Highway) to the north of the park, near Kiosk. Other access points run off highway #11 to the west of the<|fim_middle|>6-kilometre stretch of Highway 60 along the southwest corner of the Park.
The Park has four intimate campgrounds away from the Highway 60 Corridor. These campgrounds are typically at the park-end of long and dusty roads leading into Algonquin's north, east, and south sides. These rustic campgrounds feature no modern conveniences and provide a slow-paced, old-fashioned camping experience.
Explore Algonquin's vast Interior of maple hills, rocky ridges, spruce bogs, and thousands of lakes, ponds and streams via canoe or on foot. Canoes can be rented at outfitters inside the Park.
There are over 1600 canoe routes inside Algonquin Park, with a range of difficulty from flat water to white water. There are over 1800 campsites along the different routes (see Camping, above). Motor boats are not permitted within Algonquin Park. are not permitted on most lakes within the park, however there are some exceptions.
Motors of unlimited horsepower may be used on Galeairy and Opeongo Lakes.
Motors of 20 horsepower or less may be used on the following lakes: Bonita, Cache, Canoe, Cedar, Kingscote, Kioshkokwi, Little Cauchon, Rock, Smoke, Source, Tanamakoon, Tea, Two Rivers, and Whitefish.
Motors of 10 horsepower or less may be used on the following lakes: Cauchon, Cauliflower, Grand, Joe, Little Joe, Madawasha, Manitou, North Tea, Radiant, Rain, Tepee, and Travers.
Motors of 6 horsepower or less may be used, except from the last Friday in June to the first Monday in September inclusive, on the following lakes: Big Crow, Hogan, La Muir, Little Crow, Proulx and White Partridge.
This looped trail leads along the Oxtongue River to scenic Whiskey Rapids. The trail guide discusses the ecology and history of an Algonquin river.
This walk introduces the visitor to the ecology of a typical Algonquin hardwood forest and culminates in a fine view of Smoke Lake and the surrounding hills.
This trail requires an early start and a full day to do properly. It visits nine ponds and small lakes and affords some of the best chances to see wildlife in the Parkway Corridor. Dogs are not permitted on the trail.
3.5 km (2 hours) moderate.
This trail lead through a mixed forest to an impressive view of Jack Lake.
This demanding loop rewards the hiker with spectacular viewing along two high ridges.
This trail is relatively steep and rugged but affords the hike with a magnificent view of several hundred square kilometres of Algonquin.
This trail visits two lakes and a spectacular lookout, returning via n abandoned railway.
Several boardwalk sections in the looped trail give you an excellent close-up look of two typical northern black spruce bogs. The trail is located right off of the Highway 60 corridor, making it very accessible for bird watching.
This trail provides excellent views of two beaver ponds.
This trail leads to and runs along the north rim of the spectacular 100m deep Barron Canyon. The trail guide uses six stops to explain the formation and history of the canyon. Caution: This trail travels by an unfenced cliff, keep children and pets on a leash at all times.
The trail circles Berm Lake and runs through pine and Oak forests typical of the area. A trail guide discusses the ecology of a pine forest.
The Brent Crater was formed when a meteorite crashed to earth thousands of years ago. From a wooden observation tower overlooking the crater the trail descends to the crater floor before looping back to the starting point. Six stops interpretive relate some of the geological and historical significance of this unique feature.
The interior of the park offers over 140 km of backpacking trails with designated campsites.
The Friends of Algonquin Park produce a map, Backpacking Trails of Algonquin Park which outlines all of the trails within the park. The map is available at all Park access points, main gates and bookstores. It is also available by contacting the Friends of Algonquin Park.
Opened in 1993 for the 100th anniversary of Algonquin Park & Ontario's provincial park system. The centre features exhibits on the Park's natural and human history, a restaurant, a bookstore. Take in the Algonquin Room's exhibitions of Algonquin art, a theatre presentation on the Park story, and the viewing deck with a panorama of Algonquin's wild landscape.
The Algonquin Logging Museum presents the history of logging including the early square timber days and the great river drives. A video presentation summarizes Algonquin's logging history. Take a short 1.3 km trail to a recreated camboose camp and a steam-powered amphibious "alligator" log tug. The Algonquin Logging Museum also has an excellent bookstore.
This 1953 giant, hollow stone sculpture was first exhibited at the original Park Museum. This Centre was conceived to connect the art world with the natural world, and promote environmental stewardship. There is an indoor gallery with three wings, an outdoor gallery and a boutique. Visitors can participate in the artistic process at The Creation Station, for all ages.
The facility is wheelchair-accessible and admission is by donation. Open June 25 to October 22, 10 AM to 5:30 PM daily. | park and others run off of Highway #60 to the east of the park.
In early Algonquin area history the area was peopled by scattered family groups of First Nations peoples fished, hunted and picked berries. In the early 1800s , pioneer loggers pushing westward from the Ottawa Valley to harvest the great first-growth White Pine trees whose wood was in demand by an expanding British economy. These loggers lived in remote and primitive camps and over the winter felled and squared the giant pine trees, and when spring came they drove them down swollen rivers to the Ottawa River to the outside world. The Park retells the story at the Algonquin Logging Museum, located near the East Gate.
Algonquin was established in 1893 as a wildlife sanctuary to protect from farming as well as from logging. This protected the waters of the five major rivers flowing from the Park, which quickly became popular with adventure fishermen who came up by train, and shortly thereafter by Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven, which kept Algonquin's rustic hotels busy ever since. The Park has inspired more than 40 books, the Algonquin Symphony, and hundreds of paintings and studies of Park landscapes, including many hanging in the National Gallery. Algonquin as the most important place in Canada for biological and environmental research and has a part in our natural and cultural heritage.
Algonquin Provincial Park covers a transition zone between southern deciduous forests and northern coniferous forests. The result is that both forest types are found within Park boundaries. On even a short trip in the Park's you can see maple forest, spruce bogs, road edges, beaver ponds, campgrounds, lakes, and cliffs. Algonquin's diverse habitat protects and nurtures incredibly diverse plant and animal life. The park is home to 53 species of mammals, 272 species of birds, 31 species of reptiles and amphibians, 54 species of fish, and approximately 7000 species of insects, plus over 1000 species of plants and another 1000 species of fungi.
The park is the locale for extensive scientific research over the years by both biologists and ecologists. "Ground Zero" for the research is the Wildlife Research Station located along the Highway 60 corridor.
Enjoy camping, swimming, museums, hiking, learning, and picnicking with the comfort of modern amenities like electricity & running water along the 5 | 512 |
I was driving the other day on a hot Melbourne afternoon and passed three outlets advertising a big frozen coke for just $1. I saw many kids and parents armed with their new found friend as they accompanied their hot journey with a cool reprieve and importantly a stack of sugar to really keep them going. Heavily influenced by both the lack of AC flowing forth from my hot car and the satisfied looks of the passer by's, I too fell prey to the power of suggestion.
Now on my return journey home, equipped with said sugary delight, it made me think about the clients I am working with and the relevance of loss leading in small business today. 'Loss Leading' originated in the US but was originally termed; "nail down" strategy. It was always a product at a ridiculously low price. The term nail down evolved from retailers literally nailing the product to the shelf so it could not be sold. The idea is a customer would come in and then the salesperson would "step" the customer to a higher priced item<|fim_middle|> quote', 'free assessment'. Or perhaps if you have 200 leather straps lying around, sell one with every watch sold, or if you have 4 spare tubs of Ice Cream, give every child under 5 a free ice cream with every purchase.
Loss Leaders are a great way to sharpen your strategies, experiment, see what works and what doesn't, generate feedback, see where these products actually do lead customers when in store. When I extrapolated the use of this simple but effective sales technique it made me realise just how complacent and one dimensional we can become as business owners. Engagement is the key to sparking interest and convenience serves the flame for a bigger sale. | .
For many of us reducing your prices on your products or services automatically raises the blood pressure and fear of setting a precedence. You set your prices because you think they are commiserate of what you are worth and or what the market will allow you to charge for it. The only problem is that when comparing apples to apples – your business will lack a possible edge that could successfully get the client over the line.
Some examples I thought of to put things into context were items that were possibly easy to do or to offer or that you bought cheap to begin with. Your time can be one of these valuable tools woven into your acquisition strategy – 'free consultation', 'no obligation | 135 |
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Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, in Wyoming! Would you believe that Wyoming is one of a handful of states that has a 24-hour classical music channel? Maybe it's the vast open spaces and the overwhelming mountains that speak in a profound way and connect us to the majesty found in centuries of classical repertoire.
Classical Wyoming draws from the nationally acclaimed Classical 24 series that explores repertoires from pre-Baroque to today's contemporary composers. Hosts carefully craft each broadcast. Lively, engaging, and knowledgeable, they illuminate the music they present with well-researched insightful information. Each program excites classical music novices and aficionados alike.
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Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra<|fim_middle|>'s most sought-after classical composers and her work has been performed by musicians all over the world, from soprano Dawn Upshaw to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to Kronos Quartet.
In 'Like Falling Through A Cloud,' Eugenia Zukerman Explores Her Changing Mind
By Scott Simon & Ned Wharton • Nov 9, 2019
For Alzheimer's Awareness Month, accomplished flutist Eugenia Zukerman has released a new book called Like Falling Through a Cloud: A Lyrical Memoir. It chronicles her internal and emotional journey since a diagnosis of "cognitive difficulties" three years ago.
Just this past September, Zukerman was playing Claude Debussy's "Syrinx" — a piece she figures she's played more than 20,000 times since the age of 10 — when she drew a sudden blank. So although she can't always find the notes these days, Zukerman is persistent in finding the words.
Caroline Shaw Sings Her Own Song
By Tom Huizenga • Nov 7, 2019
Caroline Shaw sings her own song, "And So," with the Attacca Quartet.
After Nearly Losing His Voice To Cancer, Anthony Roth Costanzo Takes On 'Akhnaten'
By Terry Gross • Oct 7, 2019
On November 8, singer Anthony Roth Costanzo will take center stage at the Metropolitan Opera, debuting as the star of a new production of Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten. It's a remarkable turn for a celebrated singer who nearly lost his voice to thyroid cancer.
Sufjan Stevens Shares Hushed Piano Instrumental 'IV'
By editor • Oct 4, 2019
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens has shared "IV", the latest from his score to The Decalogue.
Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Finds The Humanity In 'Joker'
The new movie Joker is a psychological character study of a lonely, disturbed man who turns violent. Dark, chaotic, unconventional — all descriptions that would make sense for a movie about one of the most infamous and unpredictable villains in comic book history. But in fact, director Todd Phillips wanted this Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix, to inspire empathy. To give this comic book character human depth, director Todd Phillips brought in a composer who could transform darkness into sensitive musicality.
Composer Giya Kancheli, Championed By ECM, Dies At 84
By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Oct 2, 2019
One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century has died. Giya Kancheli was from Georgia — and the music he wrote, whether for films or for the concert hall, was full of light, shade and an incandescent longing. He died Wednesday at age 84 in his home city, the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Kancheli's death was announced by his longtime record label, ECM; his son, Sandro Kancheli, told NPR that his father had suffered from heart failure for a long time.
Plácido Domingo Resigns From LA Opera
The embattled opera singer Plácido Domingo resigned Wednesday as general director of LA Opera, the company that he helped found and that he led for more than 15 years. The news broke in the midst of two formal investigations into accusations of sexual misconduct made by 20 women about alleged incidents that took place between the 1980s and the 2016-2017 performance season.
Domingo is also withdrawing from all scheduled appearances there, including a run of Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux next February and March.
Plácido Domingo Out At Metropolitan Opera Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
By Tom Cole • Sep 24, 2019
Updated at 10:07 p.m. EDT
On Tuesday afternoon, at 5:07 p.m., Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb sent an email to staff that began this way:
"Dear Members of the Company,
Plácido Domingo has agreed to withdraw from all future performances at the Met, with immediate effect. We are grateful to him for recognizing that he needed to step down."
Vittorio Grigolo, A Prominent Tenor, Has Been Suspended For Alleged Misconduct
By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Sep 24, 2019
The Royal Opera [RO] in the U.K. — one of the most prestigious opera companies in the world — has suspended a star tenor, Vittorio Grigolo, after an incident that allegedly took place last week during the company's performance tour of Japan.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra And Musicians End Contentious Contract Dispute
By Tom Huizenga • Sep 24, 2019
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is back. Orchestra officials and musicians held a joint news conference Monday, on stage at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, to announce the ratification of a one-year contract that effectively ends a 16-week showdown between the two groups.
"I'm thrilled that an agreement has been reached," BSO music director Marin Alsop said in a statement announcing the new contract, "and that we will have our musicians back on stage to open our 104th season beginning on Friday night."
Met Opera Chief: 20 Women's Accusations Against Plácido Domingo 'Not Corroborated'
Updated Tuesday 9:27 a.m. ET
Remembering The 'Fast And Furious' Music Of Christopher Rouse
Composer Christopher Rouse, who once called himself a writer of "fast and furious" music and who taught courses in the history of rock, died Saturday of complications of renal cancer at age 70.
10 Years After Haiti's Earthquake, 'This Music School Will Never Stop'
By Melissa Block • Sep 22, 2019
The other day, I went down to the National Mall here in Washington, D.C., and heard the sound of hope in sweet, strong, young voices.
A youth choir and chamber ensemble from Haiti are on a U.S. tour that's taken them from Maine to Manhattan to Kentucky over the past month. This stop was in a lush garden of the Smithsonian museums. The tour is meant to showcase Haiti's rich musical heritage — and to raise awareness of the country's rebuilding efforts.
Met Opera Faces 'One More Catastrophic Crisis' As Employees Must Work With Domingo
Next Wednesday evening, Plácido Domingo, the opera megastar who has recently been accused of sexual misconduct by 20 women, is scheduled to start a run of performances of Verdi's Macbeth at the most famous opera house in the United States: New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Why Is American Classical Music So White?
When the first enslaved Africans landed on American shores in 1619, their musical traditions landed with them. Four centuries later, the primacy of African American music is indisputable, not only in this country but in much of the world. How that music has evolved, blending with or giving rise to other traditions — from African songs and dances to field hollers and spirituals, from ragtime and blues to jazz, R&B and hip-hop — is a topic of endless discussion.
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The Metropolitain Opera 2019-2020 broadcast schedule
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Joyce DiDonato: Tiny Desk Concert
By Tom Huizenga • Jan 15, 2020
When opera star Joyce DiDonato told us she wanted to sing centuries-old Italian love songs at the Tiny Desk we weren't surprised. But when she said she was bringing a jazz band to back her up, we did a double take. But that's Joyce, always taking risks. After all, the last time we filmed the down-to-earth diva, she insisted on singing an opera aria at the Stonewall Inn, the iconic gay tavern in Greenwich Village.
Bridget Kibbey: Tiny Desk Concert
By Tom Huizenga • Jan 8, 2020
After the ferociously talented harpist Bridget Kibbey unpacked her 47-stringed instrument at our NPR Music offices, she proceeded to crush the stereotype of the genteel harp, plucked by angels. She proved that the instrument can be as tempestuous as a tango, as complex as a Bach fugue and sing as serenely as a church choir.
Kibbey is crazy for the harp. She first heard one at a country church amid the Northwest Ohio cornfields where she grew up. Now she's the go-to harpist for contemporary composers, some of whom who are writing pieces especially for her.
One Big Breath And A Blazing Guitar: 2019's Best Moments In Music
By Tom Huizenga & Marissa Lorusso • Dec 26, 2019
Adrianne Lenker is the guitarist and singer for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based rock band Big Thief. Cecilia Bartoli is the Italian opera singer who thrives on neglected repertoire from the 18th century. The two women might seem like strange bedfellows, but they come together in our series titled "highly specific superlatives," a kind of drilling down to some of the finest and most precise moments in the arts in 2019.
Commemorating A King's College Christmas Tradition
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Ned Wharton • Dec 22, 2019
Every Christmas Eve at exactly 3 p.m., the Chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England plays A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The tradition began in 1918, and for decades it's been broadcast on the BBC and around the world. A commemorative recording of last year's Centenary Service has just been released; it was the last one conducted by Sir Stephen Cleobury, the choir's music director for 37 years, who died just last month on Nov. 22.
For A Colorado Springs Violin Maker, The Holidays And Powder Days Resonate
By Ali Budner • Dec 18, 2019
You have to be looking for Juan Pablo Mijares's violin shop to find it. The storefront is tucked deep behind an alleyway in downtown Colorado Springs. Small details make the place feel decidedly old world, from the carved wooden sign above the entrance to the plink of violin strings that serve as door chimes. On a recent visit to Mijares's shop, he says some of his customers declare the place is even otherworldly.
'Dangerous Melodies' Examines Classical Music And American Foreign Relations
By Scott Simon • Dec 14, 2019
At the height of the Cold War in 1958, Van Cliburn, a curly-headed kid from Texas, won the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He was hugged by Nikita Khrushchev and heralded like Elvis Presley when he returned.
10 Classical Albums To Usher In The Next Decade
By Tom Huizenga • Dec 11, 2019
Traditions worth saving still need need practitioners and advocates who are willing to propel them forward. Classical music boasts a long, rich history — about 1000 years — of transformation, adaptation, tumult and triumph. From radical, boundary-bashing composers to brave and bold interpreters, the music has remained vibrantly alive even as prognosticators routinely forecast its demise.
The Music And Morality Of Beethoven's Mighty Ninth
Ever since Beethoven's iconic Ninth Symphony premiered May 7, 1824 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, it has remained arguably the most popular composition in the classical music canon, thanks largely to its final movement, the "Ode to Joy," with a text by poet Friedrich Schiller.
But Beethoven's music has become something much more than popular. With its expansive length, mold-busting design, and the inclusion of solo singers and chorus, he was proposing nothing less than a philosophy for humanity.
Opera Star Vittorio Grigolo Fired By Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera
By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Dec 5, 2019
One of opera's leading men, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, was dismissed Thursday by two of the world's most prestigious houses: the Royal Opera in London and New York's Metropolitan Opera.
His firing comes after an investigation by the Royal Opera [RO], which determined that he had demonstrated "inappropriate and aggressive behavior" during an RO tour of Japan in September.
Famed Conductor Mariss Jansons, 76, Has Died
One of classical music's most beloved conductors has died: Latvian-born Mariss Jansons, who was age 76 at his death on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jansons had long had a heart condition, which first became known when he collapsed on the podium while conducting in Norway more than 20 years ago.
Powerful Lungs And Long-Spun Lines: Cecilia Bartoli Conjures Farinelli
By Tom Huizenga • Nov 28, 2019
Cecilia Bartoli isn't your average opera star. She doesn't sing many of the popular 19th century operas. Instead, she prefers to explore the dusty, little-known corners of the 18th century.
Bartoli's new album is devoted to music written for a single artist of the Baroque era named Farinelli. He was the most acclaimed opera singer of the mid-1700s, the rock star of his day, singing some of the most virtuosic music ever written for the human voice.
Met Opera Chief Peter Gelb Renews His Contract Through 2027
By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Nov 26, 2019
Peter Gelb has not enjoyed a particularly smooth tenure as the general manager at New York's Metropolitan Opera. But the company's board expressed its faith in him on Monday by extending his contract through 2027.
The agreement — which arrived a full two and a half years before Gelb's current contract expires — signals the board's strong commitment to Gelb, who earned some $2.17 million in combined pay and benefits during the company's last reported financial year.
Igor Levit: Tiny Desk Concert
When Russian-born pianist Igor Levit dropped in to play Beethoven at the Tiny Desk, he admitted he was – even after four cups of coffee – "still in my time zone change." A little jet-lagged, he had flown in from Berlin the night before and hopped an early train from New York to Washington, D.C.
Kanye West Announces An Opera (Which Isn't As Crazy As It Sounds)
In a career – and personal life – loaded with enough drama to fuel an opera, Kanye West is finally presenting one. Or at least that's what he tweeted Sunday, announcing a performance of Nebuchadnezzar, "A Kanye West Opera" at the Hollywood Bowl on Nov. 24.
Gabriela Ortiz's 'Yanga' Makes Its Debut With The LA Philharmonic
By editor • Nov 11, 2019
Gabriela Ortiz's Yanga had its world premiere late last month at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Ortiz is one of Mexico | 1,763 |
Home<|fim_middle|> 180g. | > Ask Our Experts > My Blue Shark Seems to Panic: What Can I Do?
Why does my blue shark (in a 60 gallon tropical fish aquarium) freak-out, panic and play dead? Is this normal?
The fish is speeding through the tank, swimming upside down in circles and slamming itself against the tank's glass. I worry because it seems like it is desperately trying to get out of the tank.
Please could you advise me as to the best course of action?
There are several reasons why your shark could be behaving like this.
The first thing to do is to check for disease. Often fish bash themselves off the sides and bottom of a tank in an attempt to get rid of parasites. However, if you do suspect infestation, be careful how you treat it. Bear in mind that sharks can be very sensitive to copper-based medication and check that any medicine you use is shark-safe.
When does your shark behave like this? Does it seem to be doing the same thing even when it doesn't know you're in the room, or does your approach trigger it? Are other fish distressing it? Sharks may have a reputation as fearsome predators, but they can still suffer from bullying. Could other environmental factors be involved, like the amount of light or noise in the room? If you suspect this sort of thing, try to cut out possible factors one by one to work out the trigger.
It's also possible that there's a trigger that is invisible to you - a magnetic field. Sharks can be very sensitive to these. Sometimes they're caused by electrical equipment near the aquarium, or even by the cables associated with your tank being coiled round in a series of loops (if you must coil them, twist them as you do so, but it's better to leave them loose).
Depending on how long you have had the shark and where it came from, it's possible that it's simply unhappy in the aquarium environment. You could try covering one side of the tank with black paper so that it has a dark surface it can rest beside, helping it to feel more secure. Avoid approaching the tank quickly and make sure that, if the top of the tank is open whilst the fish are being fed, you stick to a routine it can become familiar with.
Spending time with your shark will help it get used to the idea that you're not a threat, and will also give you the chance to spot any other problems (like bullying or parasites). You might also want to try playing music to it. Music with a predictable rhythm can be reassuring to fish because it gives them a sense of knowing what will happen next. Try something simple and see how it responds.
Finally, if your shark doesn't calm down and if the upside-down swimming persists, you should consider the possibility that it has an infected swim bladder. Your local fish shop should be able to give you medicine to treat this, but it will be important for you to pay close attention to the shark afterwards and make sure, in particular, that it has a healthy diet. Sometimes too much rich food can lead to persistent infections.
Good luck! Sharks are great fish, and well worth making an effort for.
I have a 60l tank and 4/5 platies 1 siameese fighter 2 pencilfish 2 embers tetras 1 threadfin rainbow 1 hillstream loach and 5 rummy nosed tetras butone platie have his face torn and ripped and looks like a murder man the main problem is that we started with much more fish are siameese has started to come out more since are fish died hes more active is he the culprit.
It just does not belong in a fish tank!!!
i know why your blue shark slamming itself against the tank's glass, because 60g is too small for them. smaller aquarium for blue shark is | 782 |
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David Bowie drummer turned down "tacky" Lady Gaga Grammys tribute | Bowie drummer says he and Tony Visconti turned down...
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David Bowie drummer says he and Tony Visconti turned down Gaga's Grammys tribute: "No, fuck off, that's stupid"
"We just went 'no, fuck off, that's stupid, that's not going to represent anything good about him.'"
David Bowie's former drummer Mick "Woody" Woodmansey criticized the Grammys' Lady Gaga-led tribute to the late singer in an interview with NME explaining he and Tony Visconti were approached to participate, but turned it down.
"We looked at it and it was going to be like 14 or 15 songs in the space of four minutes and we just went 'no, fuck off, that's stupid, that's not going to represent anything good about him'", he explained.
Woodmansey played in Bowie's band from 1970 to 1973, a period that included albums such as Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust, many songs from which appeared in Gaga's tribute alongside Nile Rodgers. He said the tribute "tacky" and later questioned the intention of the performance.
"It was just, 'why are you doing it?' If there's a genuine heartfelt thing that you wanna do out of respect, then you'd probably pull it off, but if there's any other reason, it just gets tacky," he said. "And obviously you can't stop that, they have a right to do it as they want to do it, but it doesn't help a lot, it doesn't do a lot."
Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son, previously criticized the performance as well, using a textbook definition of the word "gaga" to describe it as "overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm; mentally confused."
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It's round, bloated, painful—and maybe comes with a side of diarrhea. Here's how to uncover the problem and find the solution that will keep your gut happy.
You ate a big kale salad (go you!) and now feel pretty bloated
Your stomach's saying: You piled on too big a portion. Obviously, veggies are super healthy for your body, including your GI system. In fact, they supply the fiber that basically helps clean you out. But that's also why it can be too much of a good thing. "If you give anyone enough veggies, they'll end up pretty uncomfortable with bloating<|fim_middle|> when incorporating veggies into at least one snack (like crudités and hummus in the afternoon) can come in handy. Try chowing down on one of these 13 foods to relieve belly bloat.
When you eat mangoes, you get…bloating and gas
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Your stomach's saying: Rethink your fruits. If you're gassy in response to certain foods, doctors often suggest patients educate themselves on the FODMAP diet. (It stands for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides And Polyols. Whew!) Often recommended for people with IBS, FODMAP teaches you how to avoid the carbohydrates in foods that are more likely to cause trouble, and eat more of the ones typically more tolerable. In terms of fruit, the ones to limit include apples, pears, peaches, cherries, mangoes, cherries, and watermelon. Better options are bananas, blueberries, and grapefruit. "It's very simple to try and often effective. You can be as strict as you want with it," says Dr. Meyer. Learn more about what eating a low-FODMAP diet really means.
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As a way to get more schools in the local area involved in e-sports and introduce them to the social and emotional benefits it has, Silverton PS organised its first ever inter-school e-sports tournament! With Mario Kart being our game of choice, students had to race in pairs to try and accumulate more points than their opponents in order to advance and eventually win the tournament. With Haileybury and Keysborough SC bringing a few of their students to join in on the tournament, we had a total of 14 teams (28 students) participating to see who will be crowned Silverton's E-sports Tournament Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Grand Champions of 2022. Silverton went with a double elimination tournament structure with a total of 3 stages: quarter finals, semi-finals and grand finals. If any teams lost in the quarter finals, they would be put into a lower bracket and compete amongst each other to see who would be the Mario Kart Lower Bracket Winners of 2022.
We started off our day going through the schedule, competition rules and what prizes were up for grabs. Students had a chance to win various Logitech prizes such as an MX Anywhere 3 Graphite mouse, a K780 Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard<|fim_middle|> in the future and would love to get more schools involved! | and a Studio Series Desk Mat which were all kindly donated to us through our sponsorship with Winc education and Logitech! Additionally, The FUSE Cup had donated a free registration to their 2023 FUSE Girl Gamer Competition for whichever school were crowned champions in our tournament! Not only that, LeMans Entertainment really made everyone who participated feel like a winner by generously donating a $10 free play voucher to their arcade area 'Arcadia' to each student that participated in the tournament. We would like to thank our supporters and sponsors for donating these lovely prizes as without them, our tournament definitely would not have been as exciting or as successful!
Before the games begun, our school captain Jack Procter and our Mario Kart FUSE Cup national champion Raaga Pravintheran did a presentation about sportsmanship, how to be a better team player through effective communication and taking care of your wellbeing through watching SassQueenAmy's YouTube video 'Maintaining Wellbeing as a Gamer'. Furthermore, we also had a presentation from Silverton Primary School's eSmart - AMF Advisor Daniel Taylor who talked about the importance of staying safe online while gaming and what that looks like. We were thrilled to have Daniel Taylor and Sam Cobb come out to our competition to see first-hand how e-sports can benefit students both emotionally and socially while also using it as an opportunity to equip them with the knowledge and skills to be cyber safe. Students are constantly surrounded by technology whilst growing up thus schools have an obligation to help them navigate the digital space and respond appropriately to any anti-social behaviour they might experience.
Quarter finals kicked off with a total of 6 teams from Silverton PS, 4 teams from Haileybury and 4 teams from Keysborough SC. These teams were spread out as evenly as possible across 4 groups where teams played a total of 8 races (4 races each student). The top 2 teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals while as the rest were put into the lower bracket. The teams that made it through to the semi-finals were: Silverton Teams 1, 2, 4 and 6, Haileybury Teams 1, 2 and 4 and Keysborough Team 1. The teams that were put into the lower bracket were: Keysborough Teams 2, 3 and 4, Silverton Teams 3 and 5 and Haileybury Team 3.
After a 20 minute break, the semi-finals kicked off with 8 teams split into 2 groups. The lower bracket kicked off with 6 teams also splitting into 2 groups. After the 8 races were completed, the 4 teams that made it through to the grand finals were: Haileybury Teams 1 and 4 and Silverton Teams 1 and 2. As for the lower bracket, the 6 teams were filtered down to 4 teams who were: Keysborough Teams 3 and 4 and Silverton Teams 3 and 5. With the top 4 teams for both the grand finals and the lower bracket decided, it was time to figure who were our champions of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!
Both the grand finals and the lower bracket top 4 played a total of 6 races (3 races per student) with whoever scored the most points taking home the grand champion title. In the lower bracket, Keysborough Team 4 finished with the highest score of 62 points while as in the grand finals, Haileybury Team 1 finished with the highest score of 79 points. Silverton Team 2 were the runners-up in the grand finals with a total score of 67 points. We would like to congratulate Haileybury Team 1 on becoming the Silverton E-sports Mario Kart Grand Champions of 2022 and Keysborough Team 4 on becoming the Slverton E-Sports Mario Kart Lower Bracket Winners of 2022! Both students from Haileybury who won each got an MX Anywhere 3 Graphite mouse, a K780 Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard and a Logitech Studio Series Desk Mat! In addition, Haileybury also won itself a free registration to The FUSE Cup's 2023 FUSE Girl Gamer Competition! Our Silverton students who were runners-up in the grand finals also got a Logitech Studio Series Desk Mat each for their brilliant effort!
We would like to thank eSmart - The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, Winc education, Logitech, The FUSE Cup and LeMans Entertainment once again for supporting our very first e-sports tournament! Please do check out the hyperlinks above to learn more about these amazing organisations and feel free to share the news about Silverton's e-sports tournament with other school communities as we plan to host more | 978 |
Petaluma in Vintage Postcards
By Alice van Ommeren and KC Greaney
Incorporated in 1858, Petaluma rapidly became a thriving commercial and major transportation center. This carefully curated selection of vintage postcards illustrates Petaluma's identity and pride as it grew from a strategic port location provisioning San Francisco during the Gold Rush to an agricultural and manufacturing town in the late 1800s. After the turn of the 20th century, Petaluma focused on the poultry industry and proclaimed itself "The World's Egg Basket." The cast-iron storefronts<|fim_middle|> Angeles
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Steamtown National Historic Site | and iconic buildings, such as the Carnegie Library, post office, and silk mill, are some of the impressive landmarks constructed during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Images of a busy waterfront with a bustling downtown surrounded by Victorian homes, beautiful churches, and public parks demonstrate the town's development and prosperity.
Alice van Ommeren is a postcard collector and resides in Petaluma. Her previous publications include Stockton in Vintage Postcards and Yosemite's Historic Camps and Hotels. KC Greaney, PhD, holds a master's degree in US history and is a longtime Petaluma resident and community member.
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Skoltech is a new Russian graduate research university, founded in partnership with The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which holds the world record for the amount of Nobel Prize Winners and top positions in global rankings.
Skoltech integrates the tradition of Russian scientific excellence with the<|fim_middle|> to a monthly scholarship starting from 40,000 RUR (around 550 EUR) and health insurance.
Education in Skoltech is free. Students can create their individual learning plan and complement the compulsory set of disciplines by elective courses and projects from any field. Research is an integral part of the studying process. | world best practices, combines fundamental science with entrepreneurship and innovation. This approach, supplemented by the international atmosphere, globally renowned professors and scientists from Russia and abroad, perfectly equipped laboratories and close integration to society and industry gives students an opportunity to get the world-class higher education and gain the broad career and business prospects.
Mobility: over a third of our students participate in various academic mobility programs working as trainees or researchers at MIT, Harvard University, National University of Singapore, University of Calgary and other leading international universities.
Global environment: students from 40+ countries, professors, and researchers from internationally renowned labs and universities. We teach in English.
Life: once enrolled, you will get a chance to attend major international conferences, participate in science and student competitions and work on your own projects and initiatives.
Student package: Skoltech students are entitled | 169 |
La Senza workers make a stand for all workers
On Monday 9 January 2011 a group of women workers from the La Senza lingerie chain occupied the company's store in Liffey Valley Clondalkin after the company had sacked them and withheld their pay. Eoin Ó Broin spoke to the spokesperson for the workers, 20-year-old Tara Keane from Inchicore, about the workers' experience of the week long occupation.
"On Monday morning I went into work and received calls saying that there were men there packing up the other shops. A few of us spoke together and decided that we would sit-in in solidarity with the girls who had just lost their jobs. As far as I was concerned my job was still there. I hadn't been told otherwise. So we went straight to Liffey Valley from work with the girls.
"On Monday night KPMG phoned me and said my job was gone and not to come to work on Tuesday morning. That made us more determined to do the sit-in. The way we found out was just absolutely appalling.
"On Tuesday morning I made a few phone calls to the media. We expected to be booted out by Tuesday afternoon. But it just snowballed once the media took interest. Then everyone got behind us so it just gave the movement a lot more power.
"We are all so angry. It was just an impulse decision to occupy. We didn't know what else to do. We had no answers from anyone; we had no paperwork to take to social welfare. As far as we were concerned the store stock and whatever money was in the safe were the only bargaining chips we had to get what we were entitled to.
"So the occupation was just common sense. If we left the store then La Senza would have<|fim_middle|> will no doubt use its presidency of the EU to paint a rosy pict
A really really special case requires a really really special solution | won. By sitting-in we were shining a little bit of light on what they are doing, making bad publicity for them forcing them to resolve things as quickly as they can.
"The public support was absolutely incredible, completely overwhelming. From the moment Liffey Valley opened on Tuesday morning people stopped to read the signs we put in the windows, they came with food, money, blankets, and cups of tea. The stores in Liffey Valley were also great; they did collections, sent down tea every hour. The support was unreal. I think what was happening to us was really resonating with people, because it is happening all across Ireland and I think we captured the mood of people who are fed up and not willing to take it anymore. That's why they got behind us so much.
"We also had support from every political party. It wasn't about party politics, they genuinely put that aside and everyone came together for us. We had support from Sinn Féin, Labour, People Before Profit Alliance, Fine Gael. It was incredible.
"And then there was the debate in the Dáil. I definitely think it contributed to the campaign because it put pressure on the Government. As a result of the debate Minister Sean Sherlock meet with us twice and agreed to speak with Richard Bruton and Joan Burton about what was going on
"We all felt incredibly proud. It's not something you imagine you can achieve, it's not something I thought I would end up doing, but we knew if it was in the Dail it was going to be all over the media.
"The trade unions gave us huge support. I don't think we would have gotten the result we did if they hadn't been involved. Mandate came and really got the ball rolling for us, got us organised. I think it's really important for workers, particularly in retail to join the union. If we hadn't have had members in the union we really would have been lost.
"During the week negotiations took place with KPMG, the administrators acting on behalf of La Senza. Then on Friday evening we got word that it was all over. I was absolutely delighted. I think I speak for all the girls when I say we were so emotional because we had been there all week getting two hours sleep a night, and then suddenly to realise you got what you asked. It was great, the pride we all felt was unreal. We didn't expect to get a successful result. We thought we would raise awareness to help the next people after us. We were very proud and very happy.
"Reflecting back on our week long sit-in I would say that the main lesson from our experience is the importance of being in a trade union. I would say to all workers, no matter what sector you work in, join a union. You have rights , there is legislation there to protect your rights, and if you take a stand like we did, you are standing up for your basic rights as an employee. Don't allow yourself to be bullied, don't allow yourself to be treated badly. We didn't and we got what we asked for."
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We are very pleased to announce that our new album 'Only Now Forever' is officially out now<|fim_middle|>. Even when there are no guitars on some of our songs, it's still like, shoegaze.
All songs written by The KVB.
Nicholas Wood and Kat Day are The KVB, a shoegaze-indebted synth-pop duo who are gearing up to release a brand new EP on Geoff Barrow's Invada label.
Having started out with a handful of vinyl and cassette releases, their sound swiftly grew into a being of its own. Leaning heavily on hardware (having rummaged through Barrow's vintage synth collection for previous recordings). On "Fixation", the vocals blend into the trudging, smoky fog of synths. Quietly epic and totally very bewitching, the track has the kind of mysterious repeat-play quality that evokes Depeche Mode at their most ghostly. | !.
Buy it direct from Invada Records or your local record shop, The last few copies of the limited edition transparent vinyl with black splatter are available via Invada Records, The KVB have released their sixth album, entitled Only Now Forever . Whilst holding evident inspiration from previous times, the sound this London-founded duo present is progressive and distinctly new in every sense. Idyllic at times; gritty in others, each bar is as enchanting as the last, leaving you in a melancholic trance. Offering poignant lyricism that explores modern anxieties that plague many, the duo manage to imbue feelings of empowerment, fighting such struggles with a deceivingly sanguine sound. This seamless juxtaposition is perhaps their best trait. Will appeal to fans of Depeche Mode, The Soft Moon, New Order, Nine Inch Nails and My Bloody Valentine.
This week also saw the release of 2 new lyric videos for the album single's 'On My Skin' and 'Afterglow', both made by Kat Day.
In just over 1 week from now, we begin our seven week European album tour.
The KVB are gearing up to the release of their sixth album, entitled 'Only Now Forever', which will be released October 12th via Invada Records.
The ethereal cover ,mirrors dreamy songs such as 'Live In Fiction', 'Cerulean' and 'Violet Noon' – the latter a romantic ode to the apocalypse. In reaction to the anxieties of now, there are more aggressive moments on the album, such as the title track 'Only Now Forever' and the single 'Above Us', a driving defiance against modern life. Dark and seductive tracks like 'Afterglow' & 'Into Life' show the influence being in Berlin has had on making the album, a place that has been their home for the past four years.
The duo will take Only Now Forever on the road across the UK and Europe following the October release.
This is the ltd edition mail order exclusive variant, pressed on 2 x transparent natural vinyl with heavy black splatter. This is limited to 300 copies only!, The records come housed in a spined sleeve with beautiful artwork, and digital download card included.
Whilst holding evident inspiration from previous times, the sound this London-founded duo present is progressive and distinctly new in every sense. Idyllic at times; gritty in others, each bar is as enchanting as the last, leaving you in a melancholic trance. Offering poignant lyricism that explores modern anxieties that plague many, the duo manage to imbue feelings of empowerment, fighting such struggles with a deceivingly sanguine sound. This seamless juxtaposition is perhaps their best trait.
We're very pleased to announce that our new album 'Only Now Forever' will be released on the 12th October 2018 on LP / CD / Digital / Cassette via Invada Records.
The new video for the album's first single 'Above Us', directed by Alden Volney, which recently premiered on Clash Magazine, Whilst holding evident inspiration from previous times, the sound this London-founded duo present is progressive and distinctly new in every sense. Idyllic at times; gritty in others, each bar is as enchanting as the last, leaving you in a melancholic trance. Offering poignant lyricism that explores modern anxieties that plague many, the duo manage to imbue feelings of empowerment, fighting such struggles with a deceivingly sanguine sound. This seamless juxtaposition is perhaps their best trait, and will appeal to fans of Depeche Mode, The Soft Moon, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, and My Bloody Valentine.
Taken from The KVB's forthcoming album 'Only Now Forever'. Released on Invada Records on all formats October 12th 2018.
After intense touring 'Of Desire' in Europe, Asia and beyond, The KVB returned to their studio to further immerse themselves in sonic experimentation. The resulting 'Above Us' heralds the next chapter in the adopted-Berliners dark, electronic pop development. With waves of synthesisers, flourishes of surf guitar and sequences driving with nervous energy, the tension finally relieves with a surging, euphoric chorus.
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Waiting on the Court
May 25, 2019 in Economics
By Walter Olson
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Some time between now and the end of June the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in Lamone v. Benisek, the case challenging the gerrymander of Maryland's Sixth Congressional District, which includes Frederick. Here's a quick guide to what to expect.
When will we know? The Justices heard argument March 26. Typically it takes the Court more than two months to decide a case: as of this week it has ruled on only one case each from its February and March sittings. If that pattern holds up, it will decide this case in June, the last month of its term.
One reason to think the decision might come late in June rather than early: when the Court has a case it knows will be highly controversial, it often tends to hold its release until the final days of its term.
If it reverses the lower court and upholds the existing map. Three conservative Justices have taken the view that federal courts lack the power to remedy partisan gerrymanders. Should newcomers Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh agree, the lawsuit probably ends and the existing map stays in place for the 2020 election.<|fim_middle|>. Or Attorney General Brian Frosh, who has defended the gerrymander each step of the way, could do so.
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Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress. | That doesn't mean gerrymandering won't be be back in the news before long, since the upcoming Census will set in motion a new required cycle of map-drawing nationwide.
If it upholds the lower court and rules the map unlawful. The case then goes back to the three-judge federal panel to order a remedy. Note that the court ruled on the lawfulness of only one Maryland district, the Sixth. That's not because others such as the Third, Fourth, and Seventh aren't gerrymandered just as weirdly. But the litigation as it went along got narrowed down to challenge only the one district that changed partisan hands as a result of Gov. Martin O'Malley's map, which was the Sixth.
When courts find just one district unlawful, they tend to favor a remedy that tinkers no more than necessary with other districts. At one point, the court suggested it would be amenable to a plan that swapped territory between the Sixth and the adjacent Eighth, amounting to minimally invasive surgery.
Who would devise a new plan? If it chooses, the legislature could come back into session to adopt a map it hopes the court might accept | 236 |
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A passage in the New Yorker long form piece this week on Spotify really illuminates the key parts of what we spend a lot of time trying to help founders create: Something people want.
Problem: Piracy was how people did it at the time.
They started with a simple problem<|fim_middle|> designing a streaming protocol that worked faster than the standard one, as well as building their own peer-to-peer network, a decentralized architecture in which all the computers on it can communicate with one another. In four months, they had a working prototype.
"And I knew when we had it that it was going to be very special," Ek said.
This is a signature piece of why Spotify was special early on. There are two parts to this. The first is could it be done? Until these early prototypes, it hadn't. The second part is can it be cloned? As with almost anything software related — yes. Novel tech is not an infinite defense, but it was enough of one for Spotify to get off the ground. You don't need a technological advantage that lasts forever (though of course that'd be preferable) — just one that will last enough such that your competitors can only copy your innovation from 6 months ago. It can take that long to fast follow, which is enough to keep your unoriginal would-be competitors at bay while you blaze ahead.
This is a common refrain. If founders knew how much work these things would be, often they wouldn't do it. But they do, and that's protectable long term enterprise value.
This analysis is of course with 20/20 hindsight. In the moment, Ek and the Spotify cofounders and investors had no idea they'd be right. But they figured they might be, so they built it. | statement. All of the great era-defining startups seem to start that way. What was broken? They knew exactly what was broken.
What would solve that very direct problem? Well, a great streaming service that was superior in a specific way. They knew how to measure success. Clearly if you could make a streaming service act as if it were on your local hard drive, you could win.
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The solution involved | 92 |
Good evening everyone, thank you all very much for joining me.
Today, I am going to talk about technology and its role in fuelling the future of the energy industry.
Given this is the 'blue skies' stage, my job here is to look forward - but to put the future in context, I am going to start by taking a look back to see how far technology has come in the industry.
Let's take a look at this short video clip and please watch closely to see what comes out of this early well.
That was genuine footage of production operations in Baku in Azerbaijan in the early 1900s. As you can see, oil exploration was a high risk business at the time - and not for the faint-hearted, or for those without very deep pockets. That continues to be the case today, although the industry's management of exploration risks has come a very long way.
My personal history in the industry doesn't quite go back that far - but I have seen a lot of changes over the past 30 odd years both in the upstream, where I started as a young exploration geologist, and in the downstream refining and marketing end of the business, where I focus more today.
Constant advances in technology have transformed the energy industry - and they continue to do so at an increasingly rapid pace. Today, we have a huge range of sophisticated tools and techniques at our disposal.
The industry is a very different place - and so are the main issues we face. In the early 1980s - at the time I joined BP - security of supply was the big concern of the day. This was the era of the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian Revolution... and the oil embargoes of the early 1970s were still fresh in the memory.
It was also a time when 'peak oil' was a big theme. The accepted wisdom back then was that global production of oil would reach a maximum within a few decades and then decline due to depleted resources. Today, the challenges are very different.
Over the past few decades demand for oil and gas has grown relentlessly, and to supply this demand, oil companies have had to set their eyes on more challenging frontiers.
Technology has taken the industry from onshore to deeper and deeper water offshore.
In 1970, BP discovered the giant Forties field 110 miles off the East Coast of Scotland in water depths of around 400 feet - very deep water at the time - and a real frontier technology breakthrough.
But since then the industry has developed the technology to work in deeper and deeper water - in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore west Africa and other deep water basins, drilling to depths further below the ground than the summit of Mount Everest is above it.
More recently the technologies of horizontal drilling and fracking have enabled the shale revolution in the US, and the unlocking of vast resources once thought inaccessible.
So today, oil and gas reserves are higher than ever.
And the 'peak oil' theory has well and truly peaked.
And the main concern today is of a very different nature - and that is sustainability.
In Paris last year, at the UN Climate Change Conference - COP21 - an historic agreement was reached. 195 countries adopted the most ambitious global deal ever, with a target of holding the temperature rise on pre-industrial times to well below 2oC.
The debate today is not about securing enough energy - it is about how we manage the transition to a more sustainable, lower-carbon economy, while continuing to meet the world's growing demand for energy.
So this evening I am going to talk about how technology is helping with that transition to a lower-carbon future.
But first, let's start with a look at the challenge ahead.
This slide is taken from BP's Energy Outlook - which is our economics team's assessment of most likely future energy patterns, based on current and expected trends in supply, demand, policy and technology.
They are summed up neatly in this image… and in these charts.
Firstly, the world's population is growing. Anyone over 50 has already seen global population double in their lifetime - and it is set to increase from more than 7 billion people today to around 9 billion by 2035.
Secondly, the world's economy is growing. Global GDP has been increasing by an average of about 3.5% a year since 1970 and that's expected to continue up to 2035. Yet, we should not lose sight of the fact that over a billion people still don't have access to electricity.
And thirdly, energy consumption is growing. In the last two decades, energy demand grew by about 50% - and in the next two decades we expect a further 34% growth.
Technically that's a slowdown, but it won't feel like one – because 34% by 2035 means adding roughly one more US and one more China to today's energy consumption.
Meeting that demand raises two major challenges.
The first is sufficiency - is there enough energy to meet demand?
And the second is about sustainability - can energy demand be met without an unacceptable impact on the planet's ecosystem?
Let me expand briefly on these.
The sufficiency challenge is whether there is enough energy to meet this demand - bearing in mind that the world is over 80% reliant on fossil fuels for energy today?
The answer is a very straightforward 'yes'.
This diagram from BP's Technology Outlook shows that the world has abundant technically recoverable energy resources to meet global energy demand through to 2050.
And to put that theoretical 455 billion figure in perspective, it is 35 times greater than last year's total global consumption of energy of around 13 billion tonnes of oil equivalent and about 20 times the expected annual demand in 2050.
When I joined the industry proven resources of oil, for example, stood at just over 700 billion barrels. They now stand at 1.7 trillion barrels and we have used about a trillion barrels in between.
Advances in science, engineering and technology have kept on unlocking vast new sources of energy.
So our Technology Outlook shows that the resources really are plentiful.
The challenge ahead then, is meeting global aspirations for a more prosperous future while minimising the consequences for the planet.
These charts - in effect - summarise the scale of the challenge ahead to transition to a lower carbon global economy.
The one on the right is a series of projections on carbon emissions.
The dark green path at the top is from the BP Energy Outlook 2035 - our economists' 'base case' projection - the most likely path for emissions based on current assumptions.
The middle yellow curve is also from the BP Energy Outlook - and is an estimate for the path of emissions on a faster transition than in our 'base case'. This involves renewables growing at nearly 9% a year - rather than 6.6% in the base case.
The lower lighter green curve is the International Energy Agency's 450ppm scenario - the path that will contain the global temperature rise to 2oC compared with pre-industrial times.
The chart on the left, which is BP's base case, illustrates how global energy demand has been met and is most likely to be met in the future by the different options in the energy mix.
Even growing at the faster transition rate, renewables would only reach a 15% share by 2035, compared to the 8% share shown here in the base case chart.
So, while the growth and development of renewables will be an important part of the future energy mix, there are many more aspects to securing the transition to a lower-carbon economy, notably including greater efficiency and using more gas and less coal.
We all have a part to play in this, including governments who will need to go even further on policy than the pledges made so far in connection with the Paris Agreement.
BP supports this transition to a lower carbon future. We are a member of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative - the OGCI - which was founded following discussions at the Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2014, and currently chaired by our CEO Bob Dudley.
The OGCI brings together 10 national and international oil and gas companies, representing over a fifth of the world's global oil and gas production. Their aim is to catalyze practical action on climate change, in areas such as the role of natural gas, the role of carbon reduction instruments and tools, and also on longer-term energy solutions.
The OGCI is a body whose members share best practice, who drive innovation and engage with stakeholders on this transition to a lower carbon economy.
I am now going to look at just a few examples of how science, engineering and technology are contributing towards a more sustainable future.
The important role of gas in the future.
The role of fuels and lubricants that can boost energy efficiency.
BP has had a long history in renewables, dating back to the 1970s and the development of solar PV technology.
In 1990s BP was one of the first major oil and gas companies to call for action on climate change.
As part of this endeavour we established the Carbon Mitigation Initiative in 2000 - a partnership with Princeton University to understand climate change science and scalable mitigation technologies, and we continue this important research with them today'.
In 2005 we created a new business, Alternative Energy, in 2005, with an investment of over $9bn in renewable energy.
Today we have chosen to focus our renewable investments on wind and on biofuels, and BP has the largest operated renewables businesses amongst our industry peers.
BP Wind Energy has interests in 16 wind farms and 1.6 GW capacity, across the USA, generating enough energy to power the homes in a city the size of Dallas - or Birmingham, here in the UK.
And in Brazil, we operate three large sugar cane ethanol mills. We estimate that around 700,000 tonnes of CO₂ were avoided last year as a result of the ethanol produced. That's equal to somewhere in the region of 300,000 fewer European cars on the road for a year.
However, as I mentioned earlier, however fast renewables will grow, the current data indicates that there will be a continuing need for oil and gas to meet the world's energy needs for some decades to come.
Under the International Energy Agency's '450ppm scenario' - consistent with keeping the temperature rise to 2°C - oil and gas are forecast to make up 50% of the total energy mix in 2030 and 44% in 2040.
As a lower-carbon form of energy, natural gas can bring immediate carbon savings in the near term and will be a key and growing component of the future energy mix.
The OGCI has estimated that about 10% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided by the single act of switching the world's coal-fired power stations to state-of-the-art gas-fired plants.
In BP we are adjusting our portfolio towards more gas, from a 50/50 split currently towards about 60% gas as new natural gas projects come online around the globe.
These include major projects we are developing in Oman, in the Nile Delta in Egypt and one of the biggest energy projects in the world at the moment which is creating a brand new gas supply route for Europe - the Southern Gas Corridor, which will bring gas from beneath the Caspian Sea across Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Greece and Albania and into southern Italy.
The sheer scale, the leading edge engineering and technological achievement of the Southern Gas Corridor project is impressive.
It is actually two linked major projects.
One is a new stage in the development of a gas field the size of Manhattan Island beneath the Caspian Sea, with 33 tcf of gas initially in place, but with additional reservoirs that could increase in-place volumes to 50tcf.
The second is the building of the southern gas corridor - a new 3,500km pipeline system that will provide 16 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and on to Europe - linking Caspian gas to Europe for the very first time, creating a brand new supply of energy for Europe.
It's a $45 billion project that BP is leading, and which involves a partnership of seven national governments, 11 different companies and 11 different gas buyers.
As I hope you can see from the images, this is leading-edge engineering on a massive scale.
And underpinning this great project are numerous examples of how cutting-edge science and technology are transforming the industry and making it more operationally efficient.
We are going to take a look now at how we are deploying digital technology to transform the way we drill around the world, including the wells that will access the gas in the Shah Deniz field.
BP Well Adviser is a technology that collects real time 'down-hole' data - in other words from wells that are being drilled or producing. It then combines real-time data with predictive capability from an ever-increasing amount of historic data from hundreds of wells around the world.
Over the past two decades we have progressed from drilling that was guided only by limited analogue data, to drilling with<|fim_middle|> carbon emissions.
I have been talking mainly about upstream technology so far. But I'm now going to move downstream - where technology is also moving very fast.
And I want to share a few examples now of where we are making significant efficiency gains.
The International Energy Agency estimates that no less than half of the reductions in carbon emissions that are needed by 2030 will come from energy efficiency.
These charts illustrate the gains that are being made in the automotive space.
On the left you can see that the global vehicle fleet is forecast to double over the next two decades - from around 1.2 billion today to 2.4 billion by 2035.
But over the same time period - shown on the right - we expect fuel demand to rise by less than a third due to more efficient vehicles.
This is a result of increasing use of electric vehicles and hybridisation, improved powertrains, and a significant contribution from advanced fuels and lubricants.
So, despite the increase in vehicles, total carbon emissions from transport remain constant as a percentage of the total of energy-related emissions to 2035.
That last point is important as we still expect liquid fuels - including biofuels - to continue as the major source of transport fuel - at least for the next 30 years.
In technological terms, it's a very important relationship between auto manufacturers and the producers of fuels and lubricants and our scientists and engineers have been working in partnerships for many years to optimise engine performance.
One of the key developments in terms of improving fuel efficiency has been the dramatic shrinkage in engine size - generating the same levels of performance at the same time as burning less fuel.
As you see with the example of the 8-cylinder engine in the video, this can be reduced in size to a 4-cylinder, halving the number of pistons and reducing the amount of friction in the engine. Today we can achieve 10% higher output and 40% better fuel economy with this 4-cylinder in-line engine compared to an 8-cylinder engine of ten years ago.
So now you can have an engine like the Ford Fox - otherwise known as the Ecoboost. The 1-litre version has an engine block no bigger than a sheet of A4 paper - and it can generate the same performance with greater fuel economy than the bigger 1.6-litre engine it has replaced in older Ford models.
The consequence of this downsizing is much higher pressures and temperatures in the smaller engine, which require advanced fuels and lubricants to optimise performance.
We have several hundred scientists, engineers and technologists in BP developing a new generation of fuels and lubricants. They work in partnership with auto manufacturers, with chemical additive companies, academic researchers and with specialist testing houses to develop new fuel-efficient products, which in turn help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Let me briefly share three examples.
The first is a new range of advanced fuels, which we call BP Ultimate with ACTIVE technology.
This has been a five-year development targeting in particular the effect that dirt build up can have on the fuel injectors in use in modern direct injection engines.
These injectors have tip-holes that are often just the width of a human hair, so any combustion residue that builds up can affect the even distribution of fuel, cause the fuel to burn inefficiently and contribute to more dirt build up and so on.
Our new Ultimate fuels are formulated to actively clean engines. The ACTIVE molecules are designed to attach themselves to dirt particles and drag them away, and also attach themselves to the engine surfaces to prevent any new build up.
We've calculated that those miles could help reduce CO2 equivalent emissions on a journey by up to 4%, as you use less fuel to travel the same distance.
My second example is a new lubricant - Castrol Edge with Titanium fluid strength technology.
Again this is an example of a new additive and, as the name suggests, a new additive is titanium.
The titanium is added to the lubricant and it changes the way the oil behaves under extreme pressures. And you've already heard that pressures in engines are increasing as engines are getting smaller, and more fuel efficient.
When the titanium-containing molecule comes under pressure in the engine, it momentarily causes the oil to form a cushioning pad between the points of contact, and this reduces friction as well as protecting the engine. And reduced engine friction means more fuel economy. This is special enough, but when this pressure is relieved, the oil converts back to its usual liquid state and continues its flow around the engine.
Castrol Edge is our best and strongest range of motor oils with Titanium Fluid Strength Technology.
The third example is a new technology that we believe is going to be revolutionary in terms of engine maintenance.
It is a new technology called Nexcel that will radically alter the oil change process for the first time in decades, leading to improvements in fuel efficiency, improved environmental impact - and saving a lot of time.
In terms of how it works, this connects us back to what I was talking about earlier with digitisation. At the heart of the oil cell are sensors that monitor the oil level and oil quality, ensuring that the exact quantity and quality of lubricant is in the engine at the right time. This has the benefit of improving the efficiency of the engine with enhanced thermal management, leading to improved fuel efficiency, and lower GHG emissions.
So it's safer, quicker, cleaner, there is no spillage and the old oil is returned and recycled, so it's more sustainable as well. At the moment Aston Martin is using the technology in its super car the Vulcan - which is a track car - but we are confident that this is going to roll out to the mass market and be on road cars in the future.
That's a taster of the fuels and lubricants available to vehicles on the road today - and in the near future in the case of Nexcel.
So, as you can see, technology is driving change in the oil and gas sector with innovation across the value chain. And technology is coming from many sectors and more countries than ever before as we assimilate innovation from the aeronautics industry, mining, pharmaceuticals, automotive and elsewhere.
Today, it is far beyond the resources of any one company or organization, regardless of size, to excel and innovate in so many different disciplines. Today it is as much of a skill to choose the right partners as it is to do the leading-edge research yourself.
As a result, R&D models have moved from big, in-house corporate laboratories to co-operation with academia, and to a diversity of collaborative partnerships.
In BP we have what we call an Innovation Ecosystem - one that works to create a bigger brain through collaborations, partnerships and networking.
We directly employ more than 2,000 scientists and technologists - many of whom are based at one of eight major BP technology centres around the world - in the UK, US, Germany and China - and in smaller technology centres that serve local needs.
And we also have a global venturing business which includes several investments in technology start-ups around the world - partnering with high-growth, game-changing technology businesses where we look to help accelerate cutting-edge innovations across the entire energy spectrum.
Today we invest in research in 22 of the UK's leading universities and also have long-standing, deeply strategic research relationships with several leading universities in the UK and the US.
The whole ecosystem is focused on driving business performance and a more sustainable future through world-class research and business relationships.
I'd like to draw my talk to a close by focusing on one particular part of our ecosystem - the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or ICAM, which we established in 2012 as a $100 million, 10-year commitment to fundamental research in materials science.
The ICAM has its hub at the other end of the East Lancs Road, in Manchester. It is truly world-class in capability and in its facilities. In fact, ICAM's director, Professor Phil Withers has just been appointed Regius Professor of Materials in the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations - a well-deserved recognition.
We set ICAM up on a hub and spoke model with four university partners - Imperial College, Cambridge and Urbana-Champaign Illinois as the spokes, with the hub at Manchester University.
We will have 40 programmes running at ICAM conducting research in protection (including corrosion), materials, surface interaction and separation that we believe could be transformative - not just for oil and gas but for many other sectors as well.
What you are seeing on the screen now is one of the first innovations to emerge from our partnership with ICAM, and with a funding contribution from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - and it is a great example for me to finish with this afternoon.
This unassuming object in the picture is a nanofilm - an ultra-thin, super strong membrane that is able to perform separations that are super-fast and highly selective.
This prototype membrane is unique in that it's only 8-10 nanometers thick - a stack of 10,000 of these membranes would be no thicker than a human hair - and this 'thinness' makes it very permeable and very efficient.
It might be thin but it is also incredibly strong and can withstand pressures of around 50 bar - that is about the same as the pressures we find 500m below the ocean's surface.
This membrane can also be crumpled - like this piece of paper. The crumpled membrane is even more spectacular in performance as it can separate substances 400 times faster than a conventional membrane.
This real scientific breakthrough could slash energy consumption in industry compared with conventional, heat- related separation methods, such as distillation and evaporation - techniques we use in the oil and gas industry.
It could revolutionize filtration processes such as desalination - removing salt from sea water - both to provide drinking water and for more cost and energy efficient industrial uses such as enhanced oil recovery offshore.
What is clear today is that the impact of this new BP-ICAM technology on energy efficiency, on reducing carbon emissions and on the environment could be hugely significant.
For me it demonstrates that the UK remains firmly at the forefront of science and innovation - and who knows what other technologies like this nanofilm will emerge right here on our doorstep that may change all our lives for the future? | the benefit of gigabytes of digital data, being generated every second from sensors in the well bore.
BP's Well Advisor technology takes that data, relating to pressures, depths, direction and many other variables, applies predictive analytics, and presents it on simple dashboard consoles for drilling operators.
We use Well Advisor to monitor key areas during the well drilling process - such as cementing, monitoring blowout preventers and running casing to name just a few.
Previously, a major cause of delays has been so-called 'stuck casings' - when the well casing gets snagged and stuck on its journey down the well and has to be freed for the operations to continue.
One of the big advantages of well advisor is that drillers can see exactly what is happening second-by-second, in terms of the position of the casing, and can therefore prevent it getting stuck.
We now have this Well Advisor system live on 30 drilling rigs around the world and we have installed over 1,000km of casings without an incident. Monitoring casing alone with Well Advisor has saved more than $200m in delays and wastage over the past three years and allowed our operations to be much more efficient.
Next, I have a different but equally powerful example of how we are deploying digital technology to improve efficiency - one based on the use of virtual reality.
For this we collaborated with Maersk to train drilling crews in a state-of-the-art drilling simulator - like a flight simulator but looking down from the drill floor into the subsurface.
In the simulator we can recreate the specific conditions of the drilling operation - the same rocks, temperatures and pressures - even the same physical impact of the ocean currents on the rig.
We have used this technology to train our drilling crews heading out to Egypt to drill offshore in the Nile Delta.
Let's listen for a moment to David Lobedell from our Global Wells Organisation explaining the benefits.
After training in the simulator, the drilling team from BP and Maersk went out and drilled a series of nine wells in the West Nile Delta.
They did so without any significant operational safety issues.
And they did it 40% under budget and much more energy efficiently by completing 114 days ahead of schedule.
That is a great example of the impact that digital technology is having in making our operations more efficient.
The ultimate aim is the creation of a 'digital mirror' for all of our physical assets - so that we can test, adapt and optimize our activities in the virtual world before we do so in the real world.
Optimising our operations in this way means we can use less energy, save time, save costs and also reduce | 539 |
Russia hosts high-level Türkiye-Syria meeting
Ankara and Damascus hold talks involving defense chiefs<|fim_middle|> Damascus. The remnants of the rebellion, largely defeated by the Syrian Army with Russia's support, have fallen back to Idlib province in Syria's northwest. | , reportedly for the first time in over a decade
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu met with his Turkish and Syrian counterparts in Moscow on Wednesday. Türkiye's defense minister held negotiations with Syria's defense head, reportedly for the first time since 2011.
Hulusi Akar and Ali Mahmud Abbas, representing Ankara and Damascus, respectively, discussed "ways to resolve the Syrian crisis" and "joint efforts to combat extremist groups in Syria," as well as possible solutions to the refugee problem, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement after the meeting.
Both sides said the format was "constructive" and stressed they were interested in continuing the discussions for the sake of stabilizing Syria and the region as a whole, Moscow said.
The agenda was confirmed in a statement issued by the defense ministry in Ankara. Turkish media also noted that this was the first meeting at this level between the neighboring countries since the Syrian conflict began 11 years ago.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan severed diplomatic relations with Syria in March 2012. In October of last year, the foreign ministers of the two countries met at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Serbia, where it was revealed that their respective intelligence agencies had resumed communications.
The Moscow meeting comes just days after Akar revealed he had been negotiating with Moscow over the use of Syrian airspace for Türkiye's 'Operation Claw-Sword,' a campaign of air and artillery strikes on the Kurdish militias in northern Syria.
Ankara considers the US-backed Kurdish militants to be terrorists allied with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which it blamed for the mid-November suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed six people and wounded 81 more.
A much bigger bone of contention between the neighboring countries is Türkiye's backing for Syrian rebels that have sought to overthrow the government in | 368 |
T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation
3:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. EST (UTC -5)
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Innovations in Sustainable Chemistry
The T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation explores, celebrates, and encourages innovation and sustainability in the chemical sciences. This annual event brings together established and emerging leaders in the technical, entrepreneurial, healthcare, and policy arenas to share innovative ideas that address society's needs in the 21st century.
This year's virtual symposium will feature opening remarks by Albert Y. Chao, president and CEO of Westlake Chemical, and David Cole, president and CEO of the Science History Institute, who will moderate a panel discussion by green chemistry and sustainability experts.
Sustainable Sources of Clean Water
Daryl Boudreaux
Founding Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Rice University (retired)
Daryl Boudreaux is a physicist whose research is primarily focused in the areas of condensed matter physics and materials science. He has worked in both academic and business environments, both as a scientist and as an executive. He is now retired and living in Philadelphia.
Mechanochemistry: Catalyzing the Future of Sustainable Synthesis
James D. Batteas
D. Wayne Goodman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
James Batteas is the D. Wayne Goodman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He earned a BS in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. He is an expert in materials chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, with research activities spanning a broad range of fundamental surface and interfacial phenomena. These include studies of charge transport in organic molecular assemblies on surfaces, measured by scanning tunneling microscopy and modeled by density functional theory, nanoparticle catalysis, plasmonics, tribology, "smart" surfaces, and self-organizing nanoscale materials for device applications in optoelectronics and chemical sensing. His research in tribology focuses on the bridge between chemistry and mechanics, were his lab conducts atomic force microscopy studies of atomic scale friction and wear of oxides and 2D nanomaterials. He had recently extended this work into fundamental studies of mechanochemistry and directs the new NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry. He has been recognized twice by TAMU for excellence in teaching, receiving Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Awards at both the college and university levels. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012 and is an editorial board member of RSC Advances and sits on the editorial advisory board of ACS Central Science.
Nanoparticle-Based Photocatalysis for Sustainable Industrial Chemistry
Naomi Halas
Professor, Rice University and Co-Founder, Syzygy Plasmonics
Trevor Best
Co-Founder and CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics
Naomi J. Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, where she also holds faculty appointments in the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering, and Bioengineering. She received her baccalaureate degree in chemistry from La Salle University in Philadelphia and her PhD in physics from Bryn Mawr College. She was a graduate fellow at IBM Research and a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She is the author of more than 350 refereed publications, has more than 20 issued patents, and has presented more than 600 invited talks. Halas has been elected to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering (US), the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Trevor Best is the founding CEO of Syzygy Plasmonics. He went to Texas Tech University with a triple major in international business, marketing, and management, and a minor in Spanish. Before starting Syzygy, he worked for Baker Hughes. There he steadily progressed into management, where he gained expertise in quality assurance (Six Sigma Black Belt), regulatory compliance, technology development management, project and personnel management, supply chain management, internal and external communications, and business process architecture. With Syzygy he has successfully raised three funding rounds and is currently focusing on bringing Syzygy's revolutionary photochemical technology to market.
Sustainable Separations to Meet Emerging Needs in Critical Metals
Eric Schelter
Director, NSF Center for Sustainable Separations of Metals and Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Schelter is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. For the past 12 years, he has developed an internationally recognized research program in synthetic inorganic chemistry and separations chemistry. Much of his work focuses on the discovery of chemical methods to separate critical metals from natural and anthropogenic sources that are efficient and reduce waste. Schelter's work and leadership on sustainable metals separations have been recognized by the Department of Energy, American Chemical Society, Environmental Protection Agency, and other organizations. He also has more than 10 years of experience in public outreach efforts related to the chemical, social, and political aspects of critical materials.
The T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation is an annual event designed and hosted by the Science History Institute and made possible by a gift from the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation in Houston.
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Mark Twain was quoted once as saying: "I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." He's always been one of my favorite American writers because Twain had deep insights into human nature and an uncanny way of summing things up in a dry, succinct manner. He had more than the usual human share of wit and wisdom.
At any rate, this quote really resonates with me. The reason for that is that we're seeing plenty of skepticism in business circles these days, if not downright cynicism. There are plenty of challenges out there, no doubt about it. But anticipating the worst and being a Gloomy Gus doesn't help matters. In fact, it makes things worse. It makes us (and everybody around us) miserable, too. We can spend an inordinate and unprofitable amount of time worrying about things and you know what? Most of the stuff we worry about will never happen, as Twain so wisely pointed out.
I'm not a fan of lying awake at night and imagining the worst. That only deprives people of their much-needed sleep. We need to sleep and while we're sleeping, our brains often tackle issues and problems, hence the adage: "Sleep on it (a problem)." How often do we wake up with more clarity about the situation if not a downright solution? So sleep we should.
Rather than fearing the worst, I think it prudent to prepare and make contingency plans in case the worst does happen, but then we also need to work to cultivate a positive attitude about things. Many wise people have cited Universal Law—that the universe will give you what you expect and not what you need or ask for. Intent and attitude go a long way to sending out the right kind of vibe and achieving your goals. I firmly believe that there is a basic truth here.
By working out the "what if" scenarios that might crop up for your business and thinking ahead of what you would do to meet these challenges, you can then dismiss a great deal of needless worry from your mind and be at peace. Remember: they're not likely to happen anyway, but if they do you're prepared so why continue to worry and fret that the worst is going to happen? It's counter-productive to your health and the health of your business, and frankly, it's illogical, as well, when we consider the law of averages.
Some things are out of your hands. Or are they?
These days, business owners and marketers have come to grips with the fact that their customers ultimately have control of their brands. That sometimes leads to uh-oh moments when something less than flattering hits the blogosphere or prominent social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn—at the hands of the customer—or disgruntled former employees.
Such was the case when former employee, Dan Lyons, wrote a book about his former employer, HubSpot, a prominent Boston marketing consultancy. The book: "Disrupted: My Misadventure In The Start-Up Bubble" cast many tech businesses, including and especially HubSpot, in a negative light and scathing things were said about the company. The book has gotten quite a bit of attention and attracted quite a number of readers.
Full disclosure: I didn't read this book and likely won't but what impressed me was the response to the book and to Mr. Lyons from HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah in a LinkedIn article uploaded to the site on April 12, 2016.
Mr. Shah goes on and answers the harsh criticisms posed by Mr. Lyons' book after fully explaining how he was hired at HubSpot and stating that he resigned 20 months later. Shah goes on in a humble manner to talk about HubSpot's steps and missteps as part of the company's growing pains. He admits to their faults and talks of efforts to rectify the consultancy's weaknesses. Shah addresses each of Mr. Lyons' harshest criticisms and points of contention with class, rising above the human tendency to "<|fim_middle|> and it actually did happen; this kind of thing is a PR nightmare. Yet, HubSpot's co-founders have risen to the challenge and handled the scenario presented to them in the right way to the point of sharing company information in a very open and transparent manner. They took the time to post some of the most vexing questions posed by readers of the book and answered them.
"The HubSpot story so many of us know is one of being helpful. It's a story about a fast-growing business working tirelessly to help others grow theirs. That's the HubSpot we know will endure.
We're going to go back to writing that story. It's going to be awesome!!
Cheers, guys. My bets are on you and on HubSpot. And thanks for the lesson on how to handle the worst. We could all use a positive example from time to time. | strike back", which I find admirable.
Not only does this reflect well on Shah and HubSpot, but it also helps the company's image. How people choose to denigrate a brand may be justified—or it may not—but that's out of owners' and managers' hands. However, the manner in which they choose to deal with it is very much in their hands. Rising above the negative and deliberately not choosing to throw barbs, to call people names or to be demeaning themselves takes self-control and class. Being humble and even using self-deprecating humor only makes them look better than those who would take them down. It speaks volumes and it helps to defuse the all-too-common coarseness and incivility we see growing in our culture. There's just too much harsh rhetoric in our society and too much ratcheting up of dissension in society at large, and often unfortunately, within business circles, too.
Coming back to HubSpot: my overall view of the brand is positive and always has been. I've found their tips and blogs to be filled with viable, useful information. Much of their research and work is spot-on. Of course, having said that, I've never worked for them and can't attest to their culture or how things are within the company. But here's the point: Dan Lyons' book could have been perceived as a terrible problem for the brand | 283 |
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The automation in the workplace has always made the working class people to be fearful of losing their jobs. In fact, anxiety about the effects of capitalist technology on labor is as old as capitalism itself. For example, the Luddites, one of the worker groups in England, feared that machines would replace their jobs and therefore opted to destroy weaving machinery in the 19th century.
<|fim_middle|> of each other in the race to see who can make the most profit in a particular industry.
It is this world that we have to bring down and replace with a socialist future in which technological change will be used to make all lives easier and not used a weapon to make peoples futures insecure.
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In a capitalist society new technologies are only introduced for the purpose of profit maximization. In most cases, the competition amongst individual capitalists drives technological innovation. Competition forces capitalists to invest in new technologies to try and get ahead of their competitors.
However, when automation is introduced in the workplace, most of the time some jobs get destroyed. The automation reduces the work formerly done by human labor, especially the work of low skilled workers and, to a lesser extent, also middle skilled workers. But automation can also create new type of jobs. The computerization, while decimated the jobs of typists has expanded work not only in computer hardware and software, but also in mobile phones and games consoles.
Moreover, the automation not only threatens jobs or in some instances creates new jobs, it is also designed to increase control over workers. With automation the managers can be able to track the performance of workers better than before. Already, artificial intelligence is being used at Amazon warehouses to track every move employees make. Amazon's systems count how many times workers go to the bathroom.
Machines and human labor
The machines including robots cannot completely replace humans, either at work or elsewhere. The tasks that can be performed by robots or machines remain limited. For more complex tasks, robots have to be controlled or monitored by humans. For example, in 2016 Mercedes-Benz replaced some of its robots with humans as they are more flexible. Indeed, part of the reason for the limitation of robots or machines is their lack of flexibility. Even though, some robots do not just carry out pre-programmed instructions but learn and modify output, humans remain far flexible than robots. Robots cannot learn from others and most importantly they cannot think like humans, as they lack imagination, emotion or consciousness and cannot deal with uncertainty or unpredictability.
The point is that the complete replacement of human labor by machine is an absolute fantasy. Human labor is the only source of all value or wealth.
Without the intervention of human labor wealth or value cannot be created.Machines and tools do not create profit— they have to be put to use by workers. In a society where robots produced everything and human beings were out of work, there would be no profits for the capitalists. If the robots or machine completely replace human labor, clearly this will spell considerable dislocation and crisis for capitalism.
There will be intense crisis of under-consumption and capitalists will cease
to be capitalists – without workers there can be no capitalist class. Marx said "If the whole class of the wage-laborer was to be annihilated by machinery, how terrible that would be for capital, which, without wage-labor, ceases to be capital". The introduction of technology has never been about completely replacing human labor. This is because capitalism completely depends on workers to survive, the workers produces good and services, but at the same time they buy these goods and services.
Socialism and automation
In fact, the threat to jobs is not the machines, but capitalism itself. With or without the introduction of machines, under capitalism people lose jobs. In a socialist society that is not based on profit, people released from one job in one sector of the economy could easily found work turning out a new range of goods and services elsewhere. Under socialism, the introduction or
use of machines will be for the benefit of everyone, not for profit. Under
socialism automation will enable us to cut our working hours leading to an ever increasing amount of leisure time.
In the meantime unions need to ensure that no worker is retrenched due to technological changes at the workplace.
Capitalist introduce technological changes as a result of the permanent
completion that they are locked into with other capitalists in the drive to stay ahead | 752 |
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Aetna Announces Much Anticipated Move To The Big Apple
by Jack Kramer June 29, 2017, 11:51 am January 21, 2021, 7:01 pm
HARTFORD, CT — It's official. Aetna is moving its corporate headquarters from Hartford to New York City.
The company made that announcement on Thursday, stating the move will happen sometime "late in 2018."
In making the announcement Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark T. Bertolini sent an ominous warning to Hartford about what the future holds, while praising New York City as "a knowledge economy hub, and a driver of the innovations."
"Aetna's long-term commitment to Connecticut will be based on the state's economic health," Bertolini said in a public statement on the company's website. "The company remains hopeful that lawmakers will come to an agreement that puts Connecticut on sound financial footing, and that the state will support needed reforms to make Hartford a vibrant city once again."
In Thursday's statement, Aetna said the move will have "minimal impact on Aetna's Connecticut-based associates."
Aetna is the second big name company in the past two years to announce it would move its headquarters from the mostly suburban state of Connecticut to a more urban setting. General Electric announced it was leaving Fairfield for Boston in January 2016.
GE's decision was based largely on the pool of young talent from universities and colleges in the Boston area, and the desire of millennials to live in metropolitan areas where they don't have to own a car to get to work.
Connecticut has been trying how to figure out how to create more vibrant urban settings for younger workers, but those discussions have been on hold while it tries to resolve its fiscal crisis. And the state's recent investments in public transit have been panned by many Republicans and critics of the Malloy administration.
The General Assembly hasn't adopted a two-year budget and the new fiscal year starts in two days.
But Gov. Dannel P. Mal<|fim_middle|> the necessary steps to address our long-term challenges head-on so that we are able to provide predictably for businesses and taxpayers alike."
House Republican Leader Themis Klarides noted that "on the way out the door the company cited our state's fiscal crisis as a key element in what, if any, corporate profile will remain in the future. As lawmakers, this should be a motivating factor as we work to solve this looming financial disaster."
She said unless the state gets at the root cause of these corporate decisions, then other states will continue to steal Connecticut companies.
"We must get our fiscal house in order," Klarides said.
Connecticut's loss is New York's gain, as Aetna already has an established presence in the city, including operations in Harlem.
"Aetna's decision to call New York home is another testament to the Empire State's extraordinary economic momentum," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "New York has a deep, diverse talent pool and pro-growth environment that businesses need to succeed, and today more companies are choosing New York to grow and diversify their business."
Aetna has been in Hartford for 164 years. | loy hasn't given up all hope.
"While Aetna has decided to move 250 jobs to New York City, the vast majority of their nearly 6,000 employees in Connecticut will stay here," Malloy said in a statement Thursday. "At the same time, this is an important reminder that to be competitive, Connecticut state government must immediately take the necessary steps to produce a balanced biennial budget with recurring measures to reduce spending and structural solutions to our long-term problems. We must also continue to invest in the revitalization of our cities."
Malloy said his budget protects cities and will help them grow into exciting places to live and work.
"Make no mistake — Hartford is experiencing a transformation with hundreds of new housing units, a major university campus moving downtown, and an arts and culture scene that grows more vibrant each and every day," the governor said. "It is imperative that we act expeditiously in taking | 189 |
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